Word: splash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eight (8)acts of vaudeville were accompanied by the gentle crackle and splash of bursting eggs. When the final curtain rang down, the horde, fifteen hundred strong emerged onto the the street. Cambridge citizens for miles around promptly turned in a riot alarm, bolted their doors and hid under their beds...
...different makes), 360,000 filing cards on poison (largest collection in the world), razors and knives, plaster casts of teeth, hanks of hair, chunks of skull perforated with bullet holes. In his office are a homemade rifle range, charts spattered with red ink to mark the splash of blood, hundreds of machines to weigh, measure, test and sight, all made by Waddie out of odds & ends from the five...
Born 44 years ago in Illinois, where his Uncle Dan Sheen was law partner of Agnostic Robert Green Ingersoll, Fulton Sheen made a splash as a scholar in Europe, returned to Peoria with an invitation in his pocket to teach at Catholic University. But his Bishop, instead of telling Father Sheen what a bright boy he was and bidding him Godspeed, put him in a poor, tough Peoria parish for two years...
Debussy: La Mer (Boston Symphony, Sergei Koussevitzky conducting; Victor: six sides). Record of the month. Koussevitzky's Bostonians make every salty splash of Impressionist Debussy's great seascape glisten in hazy sunshine. Magnificently recorded...
With his Philco career thus launched with a splash, the rubicund seer of Greenwich Time rolled back to his placid office in the Connecticut hills, got out Saturday's paper (circulation...