Word: flare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ladies who sing Elsa in Wagner's Lohengrin are heavy, Teutonic, have small flare for acting. That a knight should trouble to rescue them is often unbelievable. But at the new Chicago Civic Opera House last week an audience was pleasurably surprised. The Elsa .who came pathetically before the king was slender, lovely, of exceeding grace. That her voice was commensurately light mattered little to those who watched her. She used it as skillfully as she did her hands...
...problem of securing sufficient light for photographing still remained. Further experiments with Magnesium flares indicated that it was difficult, but not impossible, to use this method of lighting. If the flare was lighted too soon, the turtle retreated to the sea; if too late, half of the episode was lost...
...warning before the American Medical Association meeting at Portland, Ore. (see p. 37). Heretofore at A. M. A. conventions, as at the gatherings of most other non-political organizations, liquor discussions have been avoided. At their Washington meeting two years ago, A. M. A. officers rigorously suppressed a Prohibition flare-up on the convention floor...
Incidental characters Mrs. Rinehart creates with a sure touch?the chorus girl turned by marriage into a lumpy termagant; the stern old grandmother who indulges a reprobate son. But, often as not, her dramatic moments flare into melodramatic anticlimax: Missie, weary of a wasted life, staggers to her old home, turns on the gas stopcock, falls asleep. "As the sun rose it turned into burnished copper the tarnished gas bracket, through which no gas had flowed for many years, and beat pitilessly on her throat; that throat on which her life was etched with fine lines, and in which...
Meteors rise and flare with no more suddenness than Racqueteer Huntington D. Sheldon. Last week he entered his first amateur championship racquets tournament. On Sunday, having trounced Clarence C. Pell three games to two, he was crowned champion...