Word: splashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Overseers of Harvard College (the two governing boards created by the Charter of 1650), and the distinguished guests, some of whom are to receive honorary degrees. On his left are members of the several faculties, in full academic dress, the gowns and hoods of foreign universities making a splash of color against our sombre black...
...once out of the top drawer (The Voice of the Turtle), just once out of the second drawer (Over 21). Otherwise it was mostly out of a musty old trunk in the attic. There was not one really good farce, fantasy, thriller. Musicals made the season's biggest splash, but their finest sounds were familiar ones: the brilliant Bizet music in the all-Negro Carmen Jones, the lovely Lehar waltzes of The Merry Widow. Possibly barring One Touch of Venus, musicomedy failed to produce a single decent score, and nowhere produced even a halfway decent book. The net result...
Dean M. Gillespie, 59, victor by a narrow 3,000 votes, was the first Republican elected from Colorado's First Congressional District since 1932. He campaigned with a splash: big billboards, solid newspaper support, and batteries of girls telephoning the citizenry. He hammered at one issue-New Deal bureaucracy. Democrats got a slow start, waiting for their wounded hero, 30-year-old Major Carl E. Wuertele (pronounced Wert-a-lee), to get his Army discharge (TIME, Feb. 7). They never did get rolling. War workers with good wages were apathetic; the party "ins" were soft. Groused one Democratic campaigner...
...walnuts. With care, occasional recesses and dashes of cold water in the face, the pressure could be prolonged up to 48 hours. Gestapoman Rediess hoped his trick would serve to get the address of every illegal printing plant in Norway. Outside the muffling walls, the unwitting crowds continued to splash along the Moellergaten...
Seats for Oklahoma, he reported, are available for "a mere $25 a pair"; at El Morocco, "vintage wine retails for $19 a splash...