Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...croaker was President Wendell Lewis Willkie of $1,000,000,000 Commonwealth & Southern Corp. A shaggy lawyer with a sharp tongue, Wendell Willkie has not only shepherded his colleagues through their court battles but has maintained a spectacular standing offer to sell vast C. & S. outright to the Government before it is destroyed piecemeal. Last week Mr. Willkie was again yanked to Washington by a House & Senate committee. Nominally he went to explain what was holding up the negotiations for TVA's purchase of Tennessee Electric Power Co., one of four C. & S. operating subsidiaries in the Tennessee Valley...
George Washington Hill gives little or no damn whether he gets publicity or whether he doesn't. He knows he is good, doesn't have to be told so, is ready to admit it when asked. His itemized admission of his talent for spectacular advertising- as told in court and revealed by Printers' Ink-last month helped to win a $500,000 law suit. One Arthur R. Griswold had had the impertinence to suggest that Mr. Hill's company had stolen an idea for advertising Lucky Strikes...
Shiniest target in Fleet Street or anywhere else in London is the spectacular "Black Glass House" of Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express. Editorially, however, the Express was far from worried, shouting nearly every day across the top of its front page: THE DAILY EXPRESS DECLARES THAT BRITAIN WILL NOT BE INVOLVED IN A EUROPEAN WAR THIS YEAR, OR NEXT YEAR EITHER. Readers were not told that dark paint had been daubed over the gleaming black glass walls inside the courtyard of the Express building, that its principal editors had been fitted with asbestos coveralls, that it had spent...
...newspaper business whetted by his work in the Ministry of Information, he bought controlling interest in the doddering Daily Express for $85,500. The same afternoon he had to draw $250,000 more from the bank to pay pressing liabilities. Lord Northcliffe, then at the height of his spectacular career, advised him to stay out of Fleet Street, warned: "You'll lose everything you have." This dare Beaverbrook took...
...Four Horsemen" was produced in 1921 and was directed by Rex Ingram, who entered the field of spectacular motion pictures very shortly after Cecil B. DeMille's "Ten Commandments" appeared. "Scaramouche" and "The Magician" were other films directed by Ingram about this time. The "Four Horsemen" was made after the war novel of the same name published in 1918 by the Spanish author Vincente Blasco Ibanez. Rudolph Valentino, called the greatest cinematic drawing card of all time, plays the starring role...