Word: flare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...darkness came over the ocean one night last week, a fleet of fishing smacks, tugs and tenders lingered together around a spot off the Cape Cod coast. Their rocking signal flares betokened rough weather and disaster. In the surf near Provincetown loomed a stranded shape, the U. S. destroyer Paulding. Somewhere beneath the flares at sea lay the U. S. submarine 54, with 39 officers and men and one civilian aboard. Patrolling the coast, the Paulding had run across the S-4 amidships when the 54, on a trial run, came up without warning dead ahead...
Tonight at Brattle Hall the spirit of the old West will flare up and flame again in the Harvard Dramatic Club's fall production, "The Chisholm Trail." Hard-riding, six-gun toting cowmen will vie with invading homesteaders for the fertile grazing plains of Nebraska in 1886. The scenes of the play give a typical picture of life as it actually was among the plainsmen of Buffalo Bill...
...wedding guests laughed to see such sport. Grande Anse reveled long and late, the victorious flare-up of the hostess furnishing backwoodsmen and Manhattanites alike with a merry toast...
...were left, Ericson and Keating. Ericson, after 29 hours in the freezing water, was taken out three miles from the goal. Only Edward Keating finished. He clambered onto the Fort William Henry pier, after 18 hr. 47 min. of ceaseless fighting, to hear the cheers of spectators, see the flare of skyrockets and fireworks in his honor, to receive the prize of $5,000 offered by the American Legion of Lake George, with part of which he intends to provide his mother a much-needed summer vacation near the scene of his triumph...
...Katja" turns out to be something much less than a wow. One can mention two possible causes for this decline and fall of what is evidently a good operetta in other places; one is the cast which, with the exception of an energetic young lad with a flare for burlesque; a large sized edition of Lenore Ulric, who flings herself about with enjoyable abandon; and a blonde variety of Ann Pennington, who possesses all the well known Pennington attributes including the dimpled knees, is distinotly mediocre. The other reason lies in the fact that a play billed as "gorgeously mounted...