Word: splashed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago, Perfume King (Tabu) J. Leslie Younghusband, whose Florida wedding to Dancer Mary Uhlmann made quite a social splash back in 1937 (Younghusband slugged one newspaperman behind the ear, threw another into the swimming pool), filed suit for divorce on the ground that fifth wife Mary had gone off and left...
...bronzed, broad-shouldered young men who turned up for the National A.A.U. swimming championships in Seattle last week, slender, mild-mannered John Birnie Marshall was easy to overlook. But there was no missing Australian-born John Marshall when he uncoiled for the mile race. For 20 minutes, the biggest splash in U.S. swimming since Johnny Weissmuller had spectators, officials and competitors watching hardly anybody else...
...I.N.P. subscribers in the U.S., including the Hearstpapers, gave the warm, candid photographs a big splash. Taken by talented Papa Rossellini himself, they showed a lovely Bergman in short hairdo and maternal mood, a generally solemn-eyed baby. (But in one six-picture sequence, four-month-old Renato obligingly worked himself up to a bellylaugh under his father's skilled direction.) When Editor Mautner heard what Bureau Chief Chinigo had paid for the pictures, he redoubled his congratulations. The price: not one thin lira...
...Hotel Adolphus showrooms and on the display racks of busy shops along Commerce and Poydras Streets, 859 manufacturers showed off their styles, designed with the splash and color which have made Texas clothes a big-selling favorite of 20,000 retail stores in 3,500 cities and towns all over the U.S. To service these far-flung outlets, Dallas manufacturers have taken to air freight; last year Texas' own Slick Airways flew out 349,000 pounds of Dallas fashions, which have even invaded Manhattan...
...Sage of Baltimore' would be a good idea (and a part of one can be found in Mencken's autobiographical books: "Happy Days," "Newspaper Days," and "Heathen Days") but what Mr. Kemler was written is only a chronicle of the era in which his protagonist made his biggest splash in the backwaters of American culture...