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Word: spectacularly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...better bill than now graces the University screen would be difficult to demand of any two feature movie programs. "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer" has been justly praised for its spectacular melodrama, picturesquely framed against the forbidding north Indian mountain passes. Very roughly adapted from the successful book of similar title, it proves an exciting bit of pageantry capably acted by a cast which includes Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Dick Cromwell, and Kathleen Burke...

Author: By S. M. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

Producing some of the most spectacular grappling seen in the tourney, final bouts yesterday culminated three days of preliminary wrestling in the annual University tournament...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MATMEN CLOSE ANNUAL UNIVERSITY STRUGGLE | 3/1/1935 | See Source »

...late Richard J. Reynolds and brought up in the tradition of the company that makes Camels: a company in which every director is a salaried officer and gets down to the plant in the morning at the same hour as the men. That tradition does not make spectacular executives. Mr. Williams in due time became president of Reynolds Tobacco, had a 1,800-acre farm with blooded cattle down on the Yadkin River and got to work at 7:30 in the morning. But neither did that life blight his ability. When he paid his first visits to Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECOVERY: Midway Man | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

...question: "Is it oriole, redbird or bluebird, or some strange, un-Auduboned new bird?" S. Clay Williams favors an NRA of neutral color with no spectacular plumage. That makes him a considerable asset to the New Deal. For when the shooting begins over the form of NRA's renewal, a neutral bird will be the poorest target...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECOVERY: Midway Man | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

That a Negroid nation should be menaced by spectacular Dictator Benito Mussolini highly excited the world's Negroes last week. Not only Harlem but every other darktown was on the qui vive at news from Rome that for three nights running II Duce had sat up secretly with His Grand Council, contriving who knew what against the African Majesty of cocoa-butter-colored Haile Selassie I (Power of Trinity), Emperor of Abyssinia and Conquering Lion of Judah, whose somewhat Jewish features support his boast of descent from Biblical King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Clarioned the Negro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Negroes v. Blackshirts | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

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