Word: splashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Howell report would have made a small splash indeed in the news if President Roosevelt had not seen fit to slap one of its recommendations down with a curt "No" and to tie a long policy string to another. The investigators thought it would be a good thing to set up a semi-permanent Air Commerce Commission with broad powers over U. S. civil aviation including jurisdiction over rates. Said the President: "In this recommendation I am unable to concur. ... At a later date I shall ask the Congress for general legislation centralizing the supervision of air and water...
...Crier" on the radio, he received more "high class" fan mail than any other single entertainer on the Columbia network. Sales of his book, While Rome Burns, approached 90,000. Like bumboat boys diving for pennies, book publishers scrambled for Woollcott words of praise for a new work, to splash on the volume's jacket as the blurb of blurbs. He prefers to "discover" some inconspicuous novel and, like a testy old sage, rebuke his public for lack of appreciation. He is the William Lyon Phelps...
...School for Social Research. Except on a few unusual students Veblen made little impression in his lectures, in which he often seemed to be asleep, usually sat with his head on his hand, murmuring polysyllabically. But his first book, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), made a splash whose ripples are still spreading. Veblen was surprised at its popularity, annoyed that it was taken as a satire on aristocracy. Such Veblenian phrases as "conspicuous waste" became famed. So did the Veblenian style, which H. L. Mencken compared to "a constant roll of subway expresses," which Veblen himself parodied...
...Emergency Relief workers saw a fireball drop into the sea, cringed as another fragment thudded into the ground a scant 100 ft. away. One worker hastened to the spot, found the meteorite too hot to handle. A man near Newburyport saw a fireball with a 15 ft. trail splash into the ocean a half-mile from shore. Over Cape Cod a cloud of smoke which obscured the sun was reported. Elsewhere at least six other meteorites were declared to have fallen in the water or on land. Only meteorite recovered was the Salisbury Beach fragment. When cool enough to pick...
...will break a magnum of champagne across the monster's bow at the christening. Longer (1,018 ft.) than the Clyde is wide (see map), No. 534 will slide stern-first into the river, with tons of drag-chains coiled about her sides to check her momentum. The splash when she hits the water was expected to send eight-foot waves surging over an orchard on the opposite bank. To accommodate her stern, the River Cart, a tributary of the Clyde, has been dredged and widened at a cost...