Word: spectacularisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, to stop the cry, Assistant Prohibition Commissioner Alf Oftedal, acting in the absence of Commissioner James M. Doran, announced that Federal enforcement officers everywhere had been cautioned to refrain from spectacular raids which might in any way be thought politically motivated. This announcement came only a day or two after Nominee Hoover's return to Washington...
...snappy. The theatre is to the Shuberts a melodious grocery store in which they labor with perfect equanimity, knowing their business well and putting up packages that are tidy though unwrapped. This year the Shuberts plan to produce three operettas, one musical comedy, three musical versions of books, a "spectacular musical extravaganza," musical entertainment, two revues and a play...
...nonetheless every time Jackson ran for office-a frequent occurrence, for he was representative to Congress at Philadelphia (where as a Democrat he disapproved the aristocrat's salons), Senator, head of the state militia, President of the U. S. Election to this post he won chiefly by his spectacular defeat of the British in a campaign which he conducted with fury, picturesque oaths, and sound good sense...
...Mille. Selling his own cinema interests, Cecil Blount De Mille, producer (Ten Commandments, King of Kings), merged his spectacular talents with the studios of his rival, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
...against it, Marry accepted from the friendly Jew a dull clerical job at the County building. What with one thing and another, he figured that Abe Wise was sobriquet for Gun-Man Steve Gold-Steve Gold of newspaper extras, Steve Gold, spectacular murderer, hounded by rival bootleg gangs. But just as he, Marry, a small town dreamer and poet, was about to be of considerable service to this curious fascinating character, Steve Gold was shot down from a passing sedan. Simultaneously Marry lost his County Cook...