Word: flare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...volume in the form of a story of the self-help co-operative movement of California. It is a typical Sinclair novel. It has a good deal of the sunny, buoyant, irrepressible uplift spirit that has distinguished all his writing since he published The Jungle in 1906, the journalistic flare that keeps even his crusading potboilers rattling along at a good clip, a large cast of those singleminded, two-dimensional, easily-stirred individuals who seem to be more frequently encountered in Sinclair's fiction than anywhere else. The co-operative at San Sebas tian, Calif, grows...
Follow the Fleet (RKO) was designed to take lean, prissy-looking Fred Astaire out of the gilded surroundings in which he has crooned and capered hitherto and put him before his enraptured public as a man among men. He wears a sailor suit with as much flare as he ever brought to a top hat & tails. He sings in his reedy voice three new Irving Berlin songs and he dances four times: 1) an eccentric fox-trot with knee-flips in a dancehall, where he and Ginger Rogers win the contest; 2) a parody deck drill on a battleship with...
...efforts in completing the project on time. Greatest of such Ogpu projects thus far was the famed Stalin Canal (linking the White Sea via Lake Onega with the Baltic Sea), finished two years ago (TIME, Aug. 14, 1933). Uncensored sources told of men & women driven with whips amid the flare of torches to pick-ax frozen ground during the long Arctic nights. Censored sources presented the Stalin Canal as a glorious social achievement in which "criminals redeemed themselves'' and official Soviet newsreels have spread this throughout the world...
...long as immature youngsters with a flare for the sensational are encouraged to report talks on technical subjects, you will always run the danger of printing a lot of fiction, but more serious sins might be avoided if those on your staff who edit copy and write headlines would assume tentatively that professors in the university are neither fools nor knaves and certain from portraying them as such without first getting from them either conscious or unconscious continuation. Thomas Reed Powell
...knew that cotton mills and speculators in the South who had bought cotton at 11? would suffer a loss if AAA moved its price peg down 3?. Two days later, anxious to send Congress packing. President Roosevelt offered to lend 10? instead of 9?, and Congress adjourned in a flare of fireworks staged by Senator Huey Long, unassisted...