Word: splash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wartime England yet made by an American; he consulted again & again with the Government's managers of defense, of money, of diplomacy and of the armed forces. While the sailorman President's back was tactfully turned, many a New Dealer was dropped overboard with a quiet splash. As the new horizon drew nearer, the new crew looked more & more like a Who's Who of Industry...
...didn't quite know how to support herself and her 19-year-old daughter Donna, who had done a bit of hoofing before things got tough. So she whipped together a script called Myrt & Marge, recounting the adventures of a mother & daughter intent upon making a theatrical splash. It was promptly sponsored by William Wrigley Jr., later taken over by Colgate-Palmolive-Peet. One of the most popular and durable of the day time serials, its estimated audience was 2,750,000 five times a week, twice a day, over...
...were swishing through bombed areas, buying up blitzed property at cut rates in the expectation of resale during postwar reconstruction. Last month Lord John Charles Walsham Reith, Minister of Works and Buildings, complained to the House of Lords about this speculation, called the problem "urgent." The size of the splash (whole blocks were bought at a time) made him think the sharks were big-maybe banks and insurance companies...
Into such spectacular activity, sober-minded Southerners could read little long-term meaning. The money poured out for construction of the camps made a mighty splash in boarding houses, restaurants, saloons, movie houses, dance halls, filling stations and ice-cream stands. But once the camps are built the jobs will be gone. Soldiers' pay rolls will keep retail trade bouncing along, but if & when the emergency ends the soldiers will leave too. For a South which needs the tools and factories of modern industry, abandoned dance halls will solve no problems...
...hairy and called El Pelao, the bald one) admits to having two wives and 18 children in Spain. It is Carmen Amaya who stops the show with the wrigglings of her round rump and wiry body, the tossings of her disheveled gypsy hair, the animal fury of her tough, splash-mouthed face. In the improvised measures of flamenco dances like the Soleares and Alegrias, never twice alike, Amaya's incredibly swift foot-stamps, finger-snappings and castanet-clacks are something to see and hear. "When I dance," says she, "my heart comes out of my mouth." Watchers can almost...