Word: splashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world premiere of that all-color film at Manhattan's Music Hall last week, hundreds of Wall Streeters took a flier in Technicolor stock on the New York Curb. If John Hay ("Jock") Whitney's Pioneer Pictures, which control 15% of Technicolor, Inc., made an impressive splash with their $1,000,000 production, the black-&-white cinema industry might become as passe as the silent films, and Technicolor would stand as a very profitable colossus at the entrance to a new era in cinema production...
...rowing will be offered since in the early afternoon a schoolboy regatta will be held over the three quarter mile course off Magazine beach, while at 2 o'clock the House crews, admittedly unfinished, but making up in spirit of pure amateurism what they lack in smoothness, will splash over the Henley course for the honor of racing Yale...
...fairy character, such as Cinderella or Sinbad. A 15-in. solid gold organ plays, a silver nightingale sings by electricity. A golden chandelier is hung with pear-shaped diamonds, lighted by electric bulbs the size of wheat grains. Pumps in the dungeon and tanks in the turrets make fountains splash, chimes tinkle. For the library many an author penned a tiny book in miniature. For the walls artists painted miniature murals. Miss Moore will take her "pet extravagance" on a world tour, donate the proceeds of 10? and 15? admissions to hospitals for crippled children...
...EPIC. Its successor, the Townsend Plan, touched its high watermark just before Chairman Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee put the old country doctor on the witness stand and made a monkey out of him (TIME, Feb. 18). As of All Fools Day, 1935, the largest political splash was being made by Huey Pierce Long's Share- the-Wealth movement...
Bomber. One who did was Eugene S. Daniell Jr., once a candidate for President of the U. S. on the National Independent Party (his own) ticket. He made more of a splash in August 1933 when he threw two tear gas bombs into the ventilating system of the New York Stock Exchange. Like some 200 others in and around New York City, he made himself head of a Share-the-Wealth Club, began preaching on Wall Street opposite the office of J. P. Morgan & Co., got about 150 followers who now meet with him Friday nights in Brooklyn...