Word: spectacular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Saturday afternoon, for the 20 to 20 score accurately indicates the margin of supremacy which separates the Harvard and Army football teams. With a record-breaking crowd jammed into every available inch of space within the Stadium, the Crimson and West Point elevens battled to a standstill in a spectacular, savagely-fought clash...
When no further reports came in, flyers said: "Probably some damn fool trying to be spectacular." But oldtime seamen had another theory: now that the sea has taken so many lives in airplanes, perhaps there is a Flying Dutchman of the Air; an outbound plane that mariners will hear and see sometimes, far at sea, on dirty nights for flying...
Murray Anderson's Almanac is a happy though pretentious volume of which the first illuminated pages cast scorn upon the antiquities of the U. S. theatre and the latter, through the agencies of Jimmy Savo, Trixie Friganza, Roy Atwell and Fred Keating, celebrate in the most conventionally spectacular manner the excellencies of the contemporary revusical. Whatever may be the faults of the contemporary revusical, such entertainments usually profit from the services of a superlative clown, and Jimmy Savo is such...
...that was passing strange. With the Bank of France's rate at 3�%, the zeal of that institution to acquire and hold gold bullion was regarded in London as distinctly ominous. Was the explanation that France ?on the eve of The Hague Reparations Conference?was amassing a spectacular gold reserve, swelling her credit to proud, unwonted dimensions, and generally preparing to overawe the Conference with a display of her fiscal might...
Prince Mohammed Ah Ibrahim of Egypt is a spectacular figure in Europe's baccarat belt. He traces his ancestry back to Mehemet Ali Pasha, the "Terrible Turk" who conquered all Egypt in 1805, beat the British at Rosetta, decorated the streets of Cairo with the bluish severed heads of British soldiers. Prince Ibrahim disregards his cousin, Egypt's plump King Fuad I, nor is he interested in Egyptian politics. On an income of $150,000 a year, he confines his interests to champagne, roulette, a beautiful wife and numerous attractive friends. Also he takes a sparring partner with...