Word: skyrocketing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Skyrockets were familiar things to Herr von Opel's audience. You light the fuse, the powder burns, the gases expand so rapidly that they push the rocket up through the air in a screeching arc. But could an automobile be substituted for the stock of a skyrocket and pushed along the ground by posterior expansion? Herr von Opel would show them...
Married. Adela Rogers St. John, author (Free Soul, Skyrocket) and scenario writer, of Santa Barbara, Calif.; to Richard ("Dick") Hyland, famed Stanford University football player...
...Jane" (stenographer) is seduced by a "Guy," is married by a "Bookkeeper," is kept by a "Sugar Daddy." She shoots a taxicab driver and misbehaves generally. That is the way Author Francis Edwards Faragoh, Hungarian by birth, sees Greater New York. His Pinwheel sputters, squawks, dies like a skyrocket that never left the ground...
...efforts to rob a French statesman and philanthropist, to her regeneration, achieved with due self-consciousness. In the final act, when Leah leaves her father and his pals, Miss Gahagan, with Jose Ruben, does some of the best acting of the play, and flames out in a final skyrocket burst that makes a good one-act thriller...
...Italian industrial uprising, which fizzed up with the suddenness of a skyrocket, has subsided as rapidly. When the workmen first seized the factories they declared that they would never give them up until they got full control; and though allowance had to be made for the familiar difficulty of moderate leaders who had to talk radically to hold their following, it began to look as if only complete surrender by the owners would avert trouble. There was surrender, but far from complete. The owners admit the principle of employe participation in management; the details are to be settled...