Word: flare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might be led to think that a play along such lines would either read like an essay or flare like a dime novel. As a matter of fact, "Inheritors" does neither. The author, through interesting characterization and many well-known tricks of stage-craft, manages to hold the attention and tickle the mental pallet throughout its entire length. So that when he is through, the reader suddenly finds that he has swallowed a moral pill almost without knowing it. And therein lies the charm...
Like an ominous, glowing bed of coals, the Japanese crisis smoulders on, now fanned into a momentary flare by an incident such as the recent shooting in Vladivostok, now outwardly dampened by propagandists. No clear-thinking citizen can maintain that it is a local issue, restricted to California; the problem is one that affects the entire future of the United States and its immediate foreign policy...
What Dick promised Maisie as they sat on the beach and watched the signal rockets flare from the bridge of the "Bharralong," south-bound in the Channel chop, is fulfilled in "White Shadows of the South Seas." The fascination of strange peoples and new scenes lies at some time on every one, and among all the harvesters of exotic flowers who have written of happier climes and simpler manners, till there has been of late years no end of making books about the South Seas, Frederic O'Brien takes high place...