Word: unseen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should ever try anything that hadn't already been worked at least one, and preferably one hundred times. Audiences were confronted year after year, for instance, with elaborate opening scenes in European palaces, full of richly garbed extras extolling the beauty, glamour, and unparalleled grace of the as yet unseen princess. Finally, when the entire company was worked into a supreme ectasy of adulation, out waltzed the star, singing gaily and enticingly flitting among her admirers, while the audience gratefully cheered, thankful for a glimpse, at last, of America's sweetheart. Producers found they could make money following the formula...
...long hours before dawn successive rumblings and tremors from the unseen mountain heralded increasingly violent showers of red-hot stones. Each volcanic groan made me wish I had never read the "Last Days of Pompet...
...that one new magazine could be born last week, three magazines were killed. Subscribers to Asia, Inter-American and Free World were asked to switch-sight unseen-to a new monthly, United Nations World. Only a handful refused to; U.N. World started life with a circulation...
...cannot even begin to convey the amount of personal effort and frustration we put into the housing quest. As an old China hand puts it: "If you hear of a house in Nanking, you don't ask to see it; you take it on the spot sight unseen and then you look over what...
C.A.B., organized by radio advertisers in 1929, early hired pioneer market researcher Archibald M. Crossley* to measure the unseen audience. In up to 81 U.S. cities for 16 years, Crossley aides thumbed through telephone directories, called subscribers at random, asked them what program, if any, they were listening to. By this method, C.A.B. tried to estimate the number of telephone subscribers tuned in to any show. No attempt was made to learn what they thought of the broadcast. The fact of listening was enough. Soon, "Crossleys" were used as defense for programs good & bad. But even top stars like Jack...