Word: flash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...honor was Dancer Mitzi Mayfair. The church crawled with reporters and photographers, who bustled down the aisle after the happy couple, went to work from prominent positions along the altar rails. The groom mumbled his lines, but the bride was in good voice. Afterwards on the church steps flash bulbs started popping again, and photogenic Mrs. Wallace helped out. She nudged her husband, whispered, "Remember to look the same way as I do." Gowns by Norman Hartnell, dressmaker to Queen Elizabeth...
...enough to come to the attention of the late great Philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, who made him give up exhibition chess at the age of 13 so he could get an education. By the time he was 23 and resumed playing, Reshevsky proved that his early talent had been no flash in the pawn. At the 1935 International Masters Tournament at Margate, England, little Sam copped first prize-outwitting among others, onetime World's Champion José Capablanca...
...entry joke, but the Yardling didn't know his own strength, and his raucous call was overheard by a billied Navy sentry, who promptly passed the good word around the yard. It wasn't a call to battle stations, but it was almost as successful, for in a flash the Naval dorms were hermetically blacked...
With one exception all the prints were non-instantaneous photographs of static subjects. They made it clear that for a half century Stieglitz has been a superb camera technician and artist, scornful of trickery and flash. The 1889 experiment with sunlight seeping through the Venetian blinds in Paula (see cut) was no less experimental, no less successful than Car 2F 77-77 (1935), where a house and trees are seen mirrored in the shining surface of an automobile...
Among the guerrillas Sergei met Fyodor, whose pregnant wife had been bayoneted to death by Nazis, his child daughter raped. Fyodor and Sergei were sent to dynamite a Nazi radio station. Fyodor dispatched a Nazi sentry with "a brief flash of his knife blade." The Germans were "perfect targets." Sergei's and Fyodor's bullets "tore into their bodies." The two Russians dashed home in a stolen Nazi truck...