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Word: flash (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appeared between say, Ritz diners bearing a moulting canary bird, incarnate soul of the sacred lbis. Many eye witnesses claim that at this point, Kamber seized the helpless bird, wrung its neck, put it on a large china plate and made Marjorie eat it as Boston photographers clicked their flash bulbs madly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Mickey the Dude" Caps Tipsy Ibis; Starlet's Press Agent Annoys 'Poon | 5/16/1941 | See Source »

...cutters put-putted up & down river. Bloodhounds sniffed along the western shore. It was still only 9 a.m. when William Mullen, veteran woodsman and member of the Palisades Interstate Park Police, leading a posse along the side of Hook Mountain, heard a noise in the brush and saw a flash of white shirt. "You're surrounded," a posseman hollered. "Put up your hands." All fight gone out of them, Riordan and McGale stumbled out, gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Sing Sing Break | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

Captain Don Donahue and Sophomore flash Doug Pirnie shared the laurels in Harvard's 88 to 52 off-the-record trouncing of Boston College's track squad Saturday. Each captured a pair of firsts and Donahue supplemented his victories with a third in Pirnie's own 100-yard specialty. The Yardlings set back the Eagle yearlings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CINDERMEN DOWN BOSTON COLLEGE | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

...standing near the porters' desk, close to the luggage room, when there was a blinding flash. Long tongues of flame shot out from the luggage room. I was thrown to the ground and got up to find myself in a crater, out of which I was only able to look up. Several others were in the crater with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Bombs in the Baggage Room | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

...talked with you, he coughed at length, and the familiar smile left his face. Pierre de Chaignon la Rose had been a scholar and a dandy, but in the last few years his glory seemed to be a mere question of spats and stick-pin, though it would occasionally flash in his innumerable stories. Seeing him in full dress in the subway late at night, you could almost guess the story...

Author: By F. G., | Title: FACULTY PROFILE | 3/18/1941 | See Source »

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