Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston, Babe Ruth made a spectacular catch, a valuable single and his first homerun of the season which helped the Braves beat the New York Giants...
Thus went Nordica's life-from a heyday that was richly spectacular to an ending deeply pathetic. She was born plain Lillian Norton in Farmington, Me. She sang in church choirs in Boston, toured with a brass band until she could afford to study opera in Italy. Like Lilli Lehmann, she began with light florid roles, won great success. But her ambition soared higher. She went to Bayreuth, worked with Wagner's widow, became a finished Wagnerian. As a prima donna at the Metropolitan Opera she conducted herself royally. For her audiences she had unfailing charm; for herself...
...first client Zellerbach Paper Co. which he had lashed unmercifully as Chairman of the Board of Control. Because he knew how to use them, power and wealth gravitated to hard-fighting John Francis Neylan in the next 20 years. Emotional, intelligent, intuitive rather than scholarly, he is a spectacular courtroom performer. Towering, grey-maned, deep-voiced, he baits, bullies, works for an explosion of temper, then strikes home. He despises anything other than a frontal attack. But he is Irish enough to ogle juries, turn his biting wit on opponents...
There is one spectacular scene in which an aviator, whose receiving set has gone dead, is heard talking and joking by radio to the ground force just before he cracks up virtually onstage in an attempt to land in a fog. Largely because of this harrowing sequence, and the arrant Boy Scoutism among the pilots off duty, Ceiling Zero does not make a convincing advertisement for air travel...
...Pavlov and others like him who prefer to work in supercilious obscurity are not calculated to stagger the Russian-in-the-street and confound the Capitalist world. In a nation of peasants which is so excited by the parachute that it is training millions to jump, men with spectacular ideas are popping up by thousands. The U. S. S. R. has a guild of inventors whose membership in the Moscow region alone is reported around 30,000. Down to the last man they are eager to show Joseph Stalin what they can do. What they lack in formal training they...