Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cases like these, inconsequential in themselves, served last week to bring to public attention the latest and most spectacular dodge of U. S. cinemansion proprietors to draw crowds to their theatres. "Bank Night," invented by a Colorado theatre manager in 1931, is now prevalent in 4,000 of the 15,000 U. S. cinemansions. Most important news of Bank Night last week came from Des Moines where the Iowa Supreme Court ruled that Bank Night was not illegal. Three hundred theatres, which had discontinued Bank Night five months ago pending the decision, promptly prepared to resume...
...victory for tin. The flat glass division, having no outside industry to contend with, has spent its time in the improvement of its product. Most important modern development has been safety glass for automobiles. Invisible glass, flexible glass, heat-proof glass and bullet-proof glass have been more spectacular but less substantial inventions. Glass news last week included...
...glass-an opaque plate glass with a highly polished surface. It was originally made for use in countertops and tabletops, graduated into wainscotting for hallways and bathrooms, last year was used in store fronts. Pittsburgh also makes Herculite, a glass which will resist temperatures up to 650°. Most spectacular Pittsburgh stunt came last month when Sergeant Frank Shannon, champion marksman of the Newark, N. J. police force, fired a round of Thompson submachine gun bullets at Night-Club Singer Ella Logan. Though only 30 feet from the "Tommy-gun," Miss Logan smiled, powdered her nose, survived. Between the singer...
Crimson teams fought to single point victories last Saturday only by virtue of last minute, spectacular rallies...
...years to a theatre company, with the result that the old Vine Street Church is now a burlesque house. This deal resulted in Preacher Bigelow's being ousted from the Congregational ministry. But seldom did a season pass that Herbert Bigelow did not make some sort of spectacular news for Cincinnati papers. In 1912 he was president of the Ohio Constitutional Convention, sponsoring initiative, referendum, municipal home rule. In 1917, while speaking across the Ohio River in Kentucky, he was brutally beaten by sheeted men who said they had horse whipped him "in the name of Belgium...