Word: spectacularisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week with her new Dominion husband, Mortimer Davis Jr., tobacco scion. Asked about the amazing luck of herself and twin-sister Jennie, at the baccarat tables in Cannes (TIME, March 12), Mrs. Davis ruefully admitted that luck has turned against Jennie, who has now lost the whole of a spectacular win totaling...
...first time in history, without the feverish stimulus of war, airplane factories are buzzing, lathes are churning, propellers are spinning. Safely ensconced behind the spectacular flights that jostle one another on the front pages of the newspapers, the airplane industry is humming with orders. The common people are taking...
...dozen airplane magazines now crowding the newsstands, solemnly issues a warning to the industry. Good things do not last forever, says Aviation editorially, and if flying is to be maintained at its present speed, the manufacturers and commercial airlines must undertake advertising and publicity campaigns to supplement the more spectacular aerial achievements...
President Little is one of the greatest of the University's track athletes. Winning his letter in 1908, 1909, and 1910, captaining the team in the latter year, he proved his versatility in both the shot put and the broad jump. One of his most spectacular triumphs was in the thirty-fourth I. C. A. A. A. A. meet held in the Stadium in 1909 when he had to heave the shot 46 feet 6 1-4 inches to defeat W. F. Krueger of Swarthmore and J. J. Horner of Michigan. Horner who finished third is himself...
...into the shoes of one President already. When the Senate seat of Warren G. Harding became vacant when its occupant moved to the White House in 1921, Willis was appointed to fill the empty chair. He has held that seat ever since, active in committee work, but lacking the spectacular record of some of his colleagues with Presidential aspirations...