Word: spectacularisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...life consecrated to the elegance of the spectacular...
...would send his three planes out, two at a time, on reconnaissance flights before essaying anything "spectacular...
General Pangalos and Admiral Hajikiriakos forthwith occupied Athens. There was some spectacular firing but no bloodshed and no damage. The Provisional President was permitted to request ex-Premier Papanastasiou to form a Government, but as his party, the Radical Republicans of the Democratic Union, declined to support him, he early abandoned his Cabinetmaking attempt. A government was forthwith formed by General Pangalos, who became Premier and Minister of War with Admiral Hajikiriakos as Minister of Marine...
...Editor McClure recalled his golden days. He remembered how, at the beginning of the Century, he had gone abroad, obtained introductions to two young English men of letters, come home and published, before other U. S. magazines, the works of Rudyard Kipling and James M. Barrie. He remembered the spectacular series of articles he had asked Miss Ida M. Tarbell to write, on all the unpleasant things there were to be known about John D. Rockefeller and the Oil Trust. That series, in 1903, had put McClure's at the head of the monthly field...
Though Clarence Dillon's spectacular purchase and sale of the Dodge Brothers Automobile Co., now Dodge Brothers, Inc. (TIME, Apr. 13, 20), is largely completed, the shouting about it is not. Indeed, the speculators and brokers of the Stock Exchange are still keenly interested in the matter. The new Dodge shares were listed on the Exchange on a "when issued" basis, , before the actual stock certificates were printed. Subsequently, open contracts made on this basis were settled by the delivery of interim certificates for the preference stock, and of interim receipts for the 6% gold debentures. When the permanent...