Word: splash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that all signs of ice have disappeared from the storied banks of the Charles, rowers of all descriptions are skimming across the waters, and before long, the Harvard crew will make its first official splash, and the voice of the coxswain will be heard in the land...
Reiner didn't get quite the cast he had in mind, but the cast he faced across the footlights was one that no conductor could kick about: big-voiced Leonard Warren as the fat Sir John himself, brilliant young Giuseppe Valdengo, who made his first big U.S. splash as Lago in Toscanini's 1947 broadcast of Otello, Soprano Licia Albanese and Mezzo Cloe Elmo...
...first inter-House swimming meets of the year made the biggest splash in intramural athletics last night as Leverett, Eliot, and Lowell surfaced with top honors...
Actually it was an old story, but the spy-thriller was good for a one-day splash on U.S. front pages. Repatriated Americans on the Gripsholm had brought back most of the story to the U.S. in 1943, it had been published at least three times in the Japanese press since the war, and nine months ago the U.S. magazine Plain Talk carried it in full...
...record their personal experiences, particularly young (25) Norman Mailer, a Pacific veteran whose The Naked and The Dead, a rugged, stormy first novel, whirled straight to the top of the bestseller list and stayed there. Irwin Shaw's The Young Lions also made a great splash, though with far less literary justification...