Word: spectacularity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...police as soon as he got out. At 27, he and his three henchmen-James Dalhover, Clarence Shaffer, Charles Geisking-are wanted for nine stickups, robberies and jail escapes, for murdering an officer in Anderson, another in Indianapolis, a clerk in Piqua, Ohio. Like Dillinger, Brady has staged a spectacular jail break, and last week Brady, Dalhover and Shaffer added a fillip to their record by lifting $2,500 from the bank in Brady's home town, Goodland...
...distinction of being one of Europe's most brilliant foreign ministers, had to be replaced because he is inextricably linked with former Premier Largo Caballero. The newly appointed Foreign Minister, Left Republican José Giral Pereira, though Premier last summer for six weeks, is a man of less spectacular record. Dr. Negrirt, however, did not waste Señor Alvarez del Vayo, appointed him delegate to the League Council from the new Government. In this capacity he is expected to produce formal evidence at Geneva this week of German and Italian intervention in Spain...
...heavyweight championship was far more strenuous than most real heavyweight contests. It lasted a week. When it ended his opponent (William Haade, a onetime steelworker) was hospitalized for a fortnight with an ankle sprained by falling at the knockout. In the picture, Kid Galahad's most spectacular victory before he wins the title is against a heavyweight named "O'Brien." O'Brien is really Bob Westell, leading California heavyweight, who this week fights Bob Pastor at Los Angeles in the first major heavyweight Dout of the season...
...TIME, May 17), loose-spoken Radio Commentator Boake Carter snapped into his microphone: "Stunt flights across the ocean had their place at one time. Now Aviation has advanced beyond that point. Hopping to London to pick up some Coronation pictures and then fly back again may be a spectacular thing-but what does it contribute to the industry? Nothing as far as one can see. The country doesn't want that kind of pilot addicted to the lure of this kind of flight to fly it around the country...
...years ago the Akron was approaching the mooring mast at Camp Kearney near San Diego, Calif, when a sudden updraft tossed her 1,000 ft. aloft with three members of the ground crew dangling from a line. Two presently fell to their deaths (TIME, May 23, 1932). With this spectacular incident in mind, all four newsreel cameramen at Lakehurst had turned their lenses on the Hindenburg's ground crew at the crucial moment, thus missed the first flare of flame. The investigators last week appealed for any amateur film which might shed new light...