Word: flash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Engineer. The U.S. lost more than an ace pilot in Buzz Wagner. Before he joined the Air Corps in 1937 Buzz studied aeronautical engineering three years at the University of Pittsburgh, where he "failed to flash any scholastic lights." But he learned about airplanes and airplane engines as few pursuit pilots ever do. From what he learned in the acid test of battle, Buzz Wagner had keen ideas about improving U.S. planes. "Engineering is my profession," he used to say proudly...
...Portland (Ore.) Art Museum celebrated its 50th anniversary last week, invited Portland's upper crust to a preview of birthday exhibits. A reporter for Portland's Oregon Journal was there, accompanied by a photographer who popped flash bulbs until he was told he was "annoying the guests," was asked to leave...
...pirate named Estramudo. A mountebank comes by, warms to the lady, tries to win her favor by claiming to be Estramudo. (Actually, her own husband is.) These and a lot of other old-fashioned absurdities of plot are blown up with old-fashioned extravagances of diction. Now & then a flash of wit serves for punctuation...
Winchell's eyes bugged, his mouth fel open, his hand shook. The FLASH of FLASHES had arrived just too late. He was off the air. "Damn those - - -!" he shrieked. "It always happens to me! I'm being framed...
...piece of Erdmannia he did not relate: around 1930 Vanity Fair heard of the "technique," readily got permission for famed Photographer Edward Steichen to photograph it in action. Came the day, and Steichen disposed his assistants high in the amphitheater with flash bulbs. The patient, a woman, had hardly arrived on the scene when Erdmann opened up her abdomen from top to bottom with one neat slice. Suddenly, in the rafters, the photographer's assistants lost their lunches and their balances. Steichen gave up for that day. Next time he fortified himself with troops who had been "blooded." After...