Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neville Chamberlain, buttoned into the gold-laced uniform of a privy councilor, rose up before a decoration-studded audience which knew that the pound had just performed a spectacular swoop on 'change and that the unrepentant Labor Party was about to try to put England into 100% Socialism. But, unlike any other of the world's chief Finance Ministers, Mr. Chamberlain had the facts of prosperity on his side. Said...
...spectacular Pittsburgh Pirates, headed by Warren Heller, U. of Pitt's All-American halfback and the latest sensation of the National Football League, will be the next opponents of the Boston Redskins who were nosed out in their initial home game at Fenway Park by the individual brilliance of Harry Newman of the New York Giants...
...Congress: He lost no time identifying himself as an economic and political Leftist. His Senate seat was hardly warm before he began a spectacular career as an investigator. He introduced the resolution to dig into Department of Justice dirt, acted as special prosecutor for the investigation committee, discovered the bootlegging connections of the Ohio Gang, put the names of Jesse Smith, Roxie Stimson and Gaston B. Means in headlines, forced President Coolidge to accept Attorney General Daugherty's resignation. Further probing into the Alien Property Custodian's office, he sent Custodian Thomas Woodnut Miller to the penitentiary...
...Most spectacular players in the field were two young Texas clerks, Reynolds Smith and David Goldman. They went to the tournament together when an airline offered them free transportation in case of vacancies. They rented a $7-a-week room. Smith, who had lost his suitcase in Cleveland, borrowed a pair of baggy trousers. On the fifth day of the tournament there were four golfers left out of the 184. Two of them were Goldman and Smith. As they had often done in Texas, where Smith usually wins, they played each other. Goldman...
...inexperienced Manhattan news photographer boarded the Berengaria at Quarantine last week and trotted about the boat deck looking for members of the D'Oyly Carte operatic stock company, making their first visit to the U. S. in many a year. He found a spectacular looking lady, now blonde, clutching a small Belgian griffon and practically studded with sparkling stones...