Word: smash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jingles, 4) songs built around a silly syllable. Of these syllables, Billy discovered, the double-o sound-"oo"-was the most successful. On this principle, he carefully constructed some sound effects called Barney Google ("with the goo goo googly eyes"). Just as his calculations had indicated, it was a smash hit. Having shortened his name to Rose, Billy lengthened his list of popular song hits and that year made more than...
...began to yearn again for the heat and excitement of the race. As he puts it: "I had stood still so long, I found vegetables growing up my legs." In 1943 he produced Carmen Jones-Oscar Hammerstein's all Negro version of the Bizet opera. It was a smash hit, and the first of Billy's Broadway theatrical ventures to bring him a profit. Billy then bought up the Ziegfeld Theater, which he owns and operates at a six-figure annual profit...
...radar might not work if the airplane were flying directly toward a vertical cliff well over 2.000 ft. high with no foothills. But according to Hughes the U.S. has no such cliffs that an airplane can smash into. The foothills or lower slopes of most mountains should give warning in ample time to avoid a crash...
...Smash-Up (Universal-International...
...writing stories he'd much rather forget today (the kind of "terribly sophisticated stuff you do when you're 20, when you know everything that goes on in hotel bedrooms"). At 19, he settled on radio, wrote 250 dramas for the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., ! became a smash hit with Dominion listeners...