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Word: smashingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Wiman, who "came out" in Greenwich and then again in New York during the 1937-38 season, said she was personally a bit worried about the possibility of the show becoming a smash hit in New York. "Gosh," she said, "if it runs on into next fall, what am I going to do about the football games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nancy Wiman, Debutante Sparkle of "Stars in Your Eyes" Relates Story | 1/25/1939 | See Source »

...Throw Glass Houses (by Doris Frankel; produced by Contemporary Stage). A smash miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 9, 1939 | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...many of his troops are war-weary after eight counteroffensives to retake the Ebro River salient. Generalissimo Franco is determined to throw everything he has into one Big Push before Britain's Prime Minister meets Premier Mussolini at Rome early in January. A Franco success, such as his smash-through to the Mediterranean last April, would give II Duce a good talking point on which to demand belligerent rights for the Insurgents from Mr. Chamberlain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: The Big Push? | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

Safely aground, Yankee Celler added a homey touch. "All the time we were up there I was thinking, 'This will be a first-page story in New Haven if we smash.' What a vacation for me! Only a week ago I was in one of Hitler's prisons for taking pictures without permission." Said brunette Miss Maddux: "It was fun. I think I made some good friends during that half hour." Then the toasters set off for a party at a London hotel, equerry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Yankee Toast | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...Luck, Wis., day before the Midvale smash, a Soo Line train drove into a school bus at a grade crossing, killed the woman driver and three children, critically injured five others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Awfullest Thing | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

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