Word: flare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three blasts of a whistle . . . "Put your wheel hard over!" . . . bells clamored full speed reverse . . . a red flare gashed the night . . . the crash...
...women, beginning with some warm young Brazilians. The New Englander is told off to inculcate hygiene in this young Marcantonio, whose passions incline also to driving highpowered motor cars and training with spasmodic vehemence to become an Olympic foot-racer. The hygienic regimen is balked by Marcantonio's incestuous flare-up with his half-sister, ending in suicide...
This matter which has caused a flare-up of violent controversy during the past month, is of particular moment to Harvard students at this time with the Student Federation's college poll coming on Saturday...
...that it will hold an open meeting for all members of the University on next Tuesday. Modelled on the debating unions of Oxford and Cambridge, this organization originally filled a vacant niche in the extra-curriculum world and provided opportunity for informal witty speaking. Last year, following the brief flare of the presidential campaign clubs, its intermittent energy waned again...
...most likely to strengthen him in his fray with the thing he has built. A fair contention is that these lie with in the realms of the spirit. Whether the dreams of philosophy or the vapors of mysticism or the rigors of a revealed religion or even the flickering flare of a poet's fancy lead him on, he must at last seek refreshment and reincarnation in the world of a Jesus, a Plato, a Shakespere and a Dante, a world which Bertrand Russell describes as just beyond the cavern of despair where Self must die, out "where the Gate...