Word: spectacularity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Irish sea captain, George Peter Alexander Healy opened a studio in Boston when he was 18. When he approached a beauteous socialite and blurted a red-faced request that she sit for him, she consented, and thereafter Healy had smooth if not spectacular sailing during his long career. A facile workman, he did probably 1,000 portraits. He satisfied his customers with good likenesses-sometimes vigorous, sometimes podgy, never subtle. He enjoyed his work, left a batch of gossipy memoranda. Of Lincoln he wrote: "During one of the sittings, as he was glancing at his letters, he burst into...
...Northrop was pulled out of the mile run and saved for the two mile relay, leaving the field open for Bowdoin's Bob Porter and Rhode Island's Stan Holt, who ran to the tape together in a spectacular finish with the first Crimson runner, Bill Wright, well back in fifth place...
...addition to being the game's youngest pitcher he is also, to all appearances, its best. Strikeouts are to a baseball pitcher what home runs are to a batter- the most spectacular possible evidence of skill. In his first regular major-league game last year Feller struck out 15 batters, one less than the American League record, set by Rube Waddell 28 years before. Modern major-league strikeout record is 17, made by Dizzy Dean in 1933. In his third week of major-league play, against the Philadelphia Athletics, Feller broke the American League record, equaled Dean...
...time Joseph Schaffner's recognition of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers was no less spectacular. Any dealings with unions were regarded, particularly in Chicago, as little short of treason. In 1910 the whole clothing trade was in the midst of bloody strikes, the Hart Schaffner & Marx workers being led by Sidney Hillman. With a sharp sense of the value of goodwill and a social conscience so precocious that even before the War he was speaking of the employer as the workers' trustee, Joseph Schaffner decided to experiment in industrial democracy...
Where California's Coastal Range marches down to the sea at the Golden Gate, one of the most spectacular cities in the U. S. sits upon immense hills. But though these pup mountains give San Francisco many a gorgeous view, they long retarded her development. Horses cannot pull wagons up the steep streets, only the most vigorous people care to walk them, automobiles must go into first gear to get up, into second to get down. The man who cracked this tough civic nut was a wire manufacturer named Andrew S. Hallidie, who in 1873 invented the cable...