Word: splash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outwardly there was little splash or glitter-few limousines or evening clothes, and a wartime, 6:30 curtain. But tickets were priced above rubies, the lobbies were a mass of craning necks and exploding flash bulbs. Last week Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne gave London one of its biggest first nights since the war began...
Slow, Big Shivers. "Another bomber roared overhead, quite low, and I saw the first string of flares splash into flame; it was dead ahead of me and it looked close enough to touch. I flopped back on the bottom of the trench and began to shake. The whine started again and I thought, 'They are going to get me this time. . . .' I tried to sink my head into my shoulders, turtle fashion, and I closed my eyes. The whine crept down the scale and I shook, not like shivering from cold but slower and bigger. Some...
...Keating made his biggest splash in the report of his talk before the Cincinnati Businessmen's League. Said Keating: "Agencies are doomed unless they establish totalitarian principles . . . with clients. Businessmen should keep their fingers out of advertising. Many agencies are producing inferior advertising, against their better judgment, for fear of losing lucrative accounts and because account executives 'butter-up' the client...
With a great splash of Dewey-like efficiency, the Hollywood GOPsters had dished out advance copies of 50-word speeches by the Big Names; then failed to call back the speeches of some who did not appear. Thus, next morning, the arch-Republican Los Angeles Times reported...
Independent producers, however high-minded or mercenary their motives, seldom manage much of a splash, whether cerebral or boxoffice. International, founded by 20th Century-Fox's longtime general efficiency expert, William Goetz, and veteran cinelawyer Leo Spitz, onetime president of R.K.O. is an exception. Its first picture is the most propitious independent debut since David O. Selznick...