Search Details

Word: splashingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...indeed, made the biggest splash-when, at season's end, England's famed Old Vic grandly invaded Broadway. After advancing with Shakespeare and being repulsed with Chekhov, the Old Vic swept on to triumph with Sophocles' Oedipus the King, giving Broadway its greatest theatrical experience in years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Finish Line | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

...Scotch & splash, haggis and heather are all close to the heart of canny Archibald Clark Kerr, first Baron Inverchapel of Loch Eck and imminent British ambassador to the U.S. On the high road to Washington this week, Lord Inverchapel had a youthful bagpiper of the Clan Maclean in his personal retinue. Henceforth, state occasions at the British Embassy will be stirred by the bonny skirl of 200-year-old Highland pipes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: The Laird of Mass. Avenue | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

...picked up the Nacional in Cuba, the Beverly Wilshire and the Sunset Towers in Los Angeles. Then, backed by Chicago's sewer contractor Steve Healy, he bought Chicago's 3,000-room Stevens from the Army. (The Stevens, too, was subsequently sold.) But Kirkeby's biggest splash was the Hampshire House, ankle-deep in carpeting, knee-deep in income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: Better than Bonds | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

Spring came to interior Alaska with a crash, a splash and $108,000. As in 28 previous years, last week's icebreak on the Tanana (rhymes with Anna gnaw) River was big news. To the lucky sourdough or trapper who guessed the day, hour and nearest minute the ice went out would go a record $108,000. And like other big news, Alaskans knew they would hear it first from Fairbanks radio station KFAR, whose special events crew was camped at Nenana (rhymes with keen Anna), 150 miles south of the Arctic circle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remote Broadcast | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

...Upper Park Avenue, a bright-colored, schoolboyish splash by New York's Representative Joseph Clark Baldwin. Said Socialite Joe Baldwin: "[Painting] takes a very short time actually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sideshow | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

Previous | 222 | 223 | 224 | 225 | 226 | 227 | 228 | 229 | 230 | 231 | 232 | 233 | 234 | 235 | 236 | 237 | 238 | 239 | 240 | 241 | 242 | Next