Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Without having been turned upside down, one of the big, red St. James's Palace fire extinguishers mysteriously became active by itself during the proceedings and there was spectacular squirting & dodging. Most exceptionally the British police guards thrown around the Council carried loaded pistols, the picturesque London "Bobby" being traditionally without firearms. After the first few droning moments of public Council session last week, it became obvious to all that in London, as in Geneva, the League Council was going to settle nothing and say nothing of importance publicly, that all actual negotiation was going to be at secret...
...Palisade, across the Hudson River from Manhattan, members of a nondenominational Union Church last week dismissed their spectacular pastor, Rev. Vincent Godfrey Burns, 42, ostensibly for having called them "cutthroats, skunks, snobs, greedy aristocrats." Pastor Burns has an equally spectacular brother, Robert Elliott Burns, who fled from a Georgia work camp, wrote a book about it (I Am a Fugitive From a Georgia Chain Gang), three years ago persuaded Governor Moore of New Jersey not to send him back. Year ago, toward the close of the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann in Flemington, N.J., Preacher Vincent Burns leaped...
When England won the Wolfe-Noel Cup it doubtless disappointed the young ladies whom they defeated. It could scarcely have discouraged the non-playing captain of the U. S. team, Eleonora ("Eleo") Sears of Boston. For a full generation she has been the spectacular epitome of an aristocratic U. S. sports woman. For Eleonora Sears, at 52, a trip to England as captain of a squash team, some of whose members were young enough to be her daughters, is no more than an incident in a sporting career which, since it became altogether legendary years ago, can only be viewed...
Purdue won most of its games by a wide margin, thanks largely to its tall, dark, ugly forward, Bob Kessler, whose left-handed circus shots were most spectacular in the last moments of the Iowa game which Purdue...
Even more spectacular has been the jump in shares of British shipyards, recently down & out, now all set to build warboats. The disgusted Daily Herald, after first severely warning its Labor readers that they will probably lose their shirts if they jump into the market now, tantalizingly explained that a nest egg of $2,500 invested one year ago in three ship-building and two aircraft stocks would today have become a tidy little fortune...