Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...selling 35,000 copies a day, big delivery trucks were rolling in and out of the churchyard, and Allen Lane had become the most spectacular success in British publishing history. The price of Penguin books: 6d (12?) a copy; the profit on each...
...efforts of two sergeants to persuade the third to re-enlist when his period of service expires. This entails much hand-to-hand fighting against a band of Thugs, a few barrack-room practical jokes and frequent athletic tricks of the sort popularized by Master Fairbanks' father. Funny, spectacular, and exciting, Gunga Din reaches its climax when the liveliest sergeant (Grant) gets trapped by Thug Guru (Eduardo Ciannelli) and is almost thrown into a pit full of hungry cobras. Typical sequence: battle between a regiment of Scots Highlanders and Thug cavalry, filmed on the slopes of Mt. Whitney last...
...daughter of Harvard's Anthropology Professor Alfred Marston Tozzer, is a letter-perfect skater of school figures (which count two-thirds in determining a national champion). Audrey Peppe (pronounced peppy), petite vivacious niece of Beatrix Loughran, national figure-skating champion in 1925-26-27 is famed for her spectacular free skating (self-selected routines, which count one-third in determining a champion...
...first week the largest fish registered was an Allison tuna weighing 138½ Ibs., the biggest sailfish a not spectacular 71½ pounder. But fishermen were hopeful. A world-record white marlin (161 Ibs.) was caught off Miami last spring...
...Hollywooding Hollywood is the keynote of the brilliant musical opening at the Shubert. "Stars in Your Eyes," book by J. P. McEvoy, in spite of its cowboy and the lady type of plot, really comes from behind spectacular scenery changing and lighting to give thoroughly enjoyable entertainment...