Word: splashing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prizes, offered by an anonymous donor for a monument honoring The Unknown Political Prisoner (TIME, Feb. 9). When the experts were finished, the $12,670 grand prize went to Britain's Reg Butler, 39, a shaggy-haired architect turned sculptor who made his first real splash at last summer's Venice Biennale...
Crimson swimmers took a second and three thirds, but the second installment of the 13th Annual Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming Championships remained strictly a Yale splash party last night at the Indoor Athletic Building...
Love's Labour's Lost (by William Shakespeare) opened the season at Manhattan's City Center with a gay splash. The play is minor and rather poky Shakespeare, last seen on Broadway in the 1890s; but the present revival, if a dubious choice, takes a daring form. Love's Labour is offered as an elegant Edwardian frolic, half satiric comedy, half court masque. Alexander Pope was told of his translation of the Iliad: "A very pretty poem, Mr. Pope, but you must not call it Homer." Perhaps the City Center should not call this Shakespeare; perhaps...
BABAR'S VISIT TO BIRD ISLAND (40 pp.) -Laurent de Brunhoff-Random House ($3.50). What happens when a royal family of elephants pays a social visit to the Bird King & Queen, told with engaging naturalness by a French author-artist who knows how to splash his pages with vivid panoramic views that have what every child loves in a picture-a brilliant general impression combined with endless small details to be picked out at leisure...
...papers across the nation, the news broke with a splash. Headlined the New York World-Telegram and Sun: CROONER SENDS BLONDE INTO A TRANCE. Said the Long Beach Independent: LOVE SONG HYPNOTIZES BEAUTY. The Wichita Eagle carried a Page One picture of a "petite, shapely blonde, still unidentified . . . after she fell into a 'trance' while listening to Baritone Singer John Arcesi sing Lost in Your Love at a Las Vegas nightclub." U.P. and I.N.S. put the story on the wires. Though many newsmen suspected the story, they still ran it, and thus fell for one of the most...