Word: splashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis jeweler, Kay started playing the piano when she was four, appeared with the St. Louis Symphony at 15. Says she: "I was a stage-struck kid, and I got out of St. Louis fast." She went to California at 17 to teach diving, but made a bigger splash on the air, with the Mills Brothers, and later with Fred Waring. She had a radio program of her own, the Kay Thompson Festival, before ending...
Between Snow & Sun. A.U.B.'s beautiful campus occupies a long narrow stretch of hilly ground overlooking the Mediterranean. While some of the 2,500 students splash around in the blue waters or laze in the sun, others are off skiing in the Lebanon Mountains only an hour away...
...Coming Slump. One target of Stabler's sarcasm was Major L. L. B. Angas, the ruddy, cigar-smoking Briton who made a considerable splash in 1934 with his The Coming American Boom. Since then, Major Angas has offered his prophecies, at $25 a year ($100 an hour for private consultations). Last week some of Angas' titles were typical of his gloomy views : Psychology of the Coming Slump, Short-Run Rally, Not a Bull Market - Don't Be Fooled by the Rally...
...some of the greatest oddities. Its bongo, a reddish antelope with white rings around its middle, is the only one in captivity. Its okapi, built like a giraffe in front and a zebra behind, is the only one in the U.S. This spring the Bronx made a big splash with the importation of three duck-billed platypuses, the first to be brought to the U.S. from Australia since...
...splash cuspidor, shaped so as to prevent ricocheting onto rugs...