Word: flash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course, with Ethel Waters in there to roll the orbs, flash ivory and vibrate the larnyx, it is hard to see how any production could fail to ring the chimes. When she, as the religious and patient Petunia, sings Vernon Duke's "Taking a Chance On Love" and "Cabin in the Sky," life is a different thing. But even she is unable to steal the whole show. Rex Ingrain, whose face and voice will be most recently remembered as that of the Genii in "The Thief of Bagdad," is about as devilishly good as Lucifer, Jr. could...
...theme, which is titled "In Defense of the Efficiency of Democracy in Wartime," is complete with boogie woogie interludes and pseudo news items in imitation of Walter Winchell, such as, "Flash! Warsaw falls...
...those who delight in using up flash bulbs, whether they ever have before or not, the Photographic board affords unlimited opportunity for artistic expression. Finally there remains the Editorial board, which is holding a competition limited to the more worldly Sophomores, who, in a year at Harvard, have acquired the proper indifference and information. 7:30 o'clock is the time, 14 Plympton Street the address...
Stylistically the direct antithesis of the polished type of swing that has become extremely popular, Fats and his boys have a way of playing which is so completely effortless that the casual listener often tends to disregard the band and go on to something with more flash and immediate appeal. Yet take it from me, with the exception of the Red Allen band at New York's Cafe Society, you won't hear better jazz in a small combination. Take, for instance, the way the band plays on ordinary pop tune. They open it with a light, bouncing piano chorus...
...Fairchild Aviation Corp. announced development of a device which enables military plane pilots to take photographs of ground objectives at night, at altitudes up to 5,000 ft. The airman drops a powerful magnesium-powder flash bulb equipped with a time fuse which explodes it near the ground. The flash actuates a photoelectric cell in the plane, which instantly trips the camera shutter...