Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into receivership, and Mrs. Cosden, without an automobile to her name, gamely went to work as an interior decorator. In 1933 Josh Cosden bought in his company at a receiver's sale for $501,000. Again his loyal friends were sure that his luck was due for another spectacular spin...
...these boys are just as bad on polo as they are on fishing; worse, because fishing is a sleepy sort of sport indulged in by genteel old philosophers who like to go off into the woods by themselves, while polo is probably the most public, most brilliant and most spectacular game you can play...
Still loyal to Bob Sweitzer, whose nature is said to be as expansive as his face, many a Sweitzer friend could hardly believe the news. A few recalled that, on a salary of $9,000 a year, he had run through a long series of spectacular business failures. But Bob Sweitzer himself made a great show of unconcern. Blithe as a jaybird with a worm, he continued going to afternoon baseball games, banquets, told newshawks: "I'm not worried, only annoyed. I will ask for a reasonable time to check the audit. . . . There are some controversial items...
...Cinemactress Greta Garbo (Gustaffson) began a vacation journey back to her native Sweden and the castle she bought from Ivar Kreuger's estate. In her old limousine she drove from Hollywood to Pasadena, where she hid from prying eyes in a bush with four bodyguards before making a spectacular dash for the Santa Fe train. Outside Chicago, she alighted in the railroad yards, set police and railroad men in a dither getting her a cab. Her next appearance was at Chicago's Union Station where she arrived ten minutes before train time, peeked around a corner, spied some...
...Zukor was given a berth as board chairman but key job of executive committee chairman went to Mr. Fortington. Picked for president was John Edward Otterson, 54, a tall, quiet, iron-haired onetime Naval officer who has long headed Electrical Research Products, Inc., American Telephone & Telegraph's spectacular subsidiary. He it was who boosted A. T. & T. to its dominant position in the film industry's sound equipment field. His only hobbies are learned cinemas, showing, perhaps, the actual explosions in a gasoline engine or the development of a child from infancy to adolescence. Annapolis graduate though...