Word: splash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Several sailors had succeeded in getting off a small motorboat. . . . Trying to splash toward it, I went under again. . . . A score of others had the same idea. . . . Finally the motorboat tipped over, hurling us all into the sea.* I saw the black silhouette of a destroyer about 75 yards ahead. . . . I managed to propel myself forward and hang on to a ladder, safe, but so spent I couldn't pull myself up. At that moment a life raft drifted against the destroyer's side. It banged my head against the warship and I cried out time and again...
...promote South American good will, Manhattan's misogynous New York Athletic Club, for the first time in its 73-year history, last week permitted women to splash in its pool. Reason: Brazil's 26-year-old Maria Lenk, breaststroke champion of South America and holder of the women's world's record at 200 and 400 meters...
Gloria Vanderbilt, 17, got engaged to Pasquale ("Pat") di Cicco, 32-year-old Hollywood actor's agent. Gloria, who comes into $4,000,000 when she reaches 21, returned to the public eye with a splash of party-giving last spring, for the first time since 1934. That year she was the center of a long custody battle between her mother, Mrs. Reginald C. Vanderbilt, and her aunt, Mrs. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. Through last summer and fall she was photographed with a series of escorts that included Cinemactors Bruce Cabot, Randolph Scott, George Montgomery and di Cicco. Her fianc...
...late Manhattan restaurant keeper ("Janssen Wants to See You"), Werner Janssen pounded and hacked his way to a musical career, over the grim opposition of his father, who wanted him to carry on in Janssen's Hofbrau. In the early 1930s the younger Janssen made his splash with Europe's great orchestras, was rated tops in playing Sibelius, by the great Finn himself. But when the New York Philharmonic-Symphony tried him in 1934, Janssen failed to click. He went to Hollywood, wrote the score for The General Died At Dawn, married Actress Ann Harding. For two years...
Musick, had killed Musick's 19-year-old son, asleep in bed. He remembers how Elmon Middleton, a Harlan County prosecuting attorney who vowed he was going to crusade for miners' rights, stepped on his automobile starter one day and went up in a horrendous splash of steel, flesh and dynamite. He remembers how he himself had been besieged in a Harlan hotel by deputy sheriffs who were determined to run him out of town...