Word: flashbulbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowd, and the U. S., and the listening world, he said, as he has often said, that there must be no doubts about the future of democracy, that tyranny and slavery are not "the wave of the future." A flashbulb popped like a shot. The wind came in stronger gusts. The President: "Democracy is not dying." The nation's body must be tended, the nation's mind informed, but the spirit of America, the American faith must be preserved at all costs. To protect and preserve "the sacred fire" of that spirit everywhere in the world, he called...
Though Mr. Farley grinned a flashbulb grin as he left the White House, he left behind a chilly Administration silence. Something had changed in the relationship of Handyman Farley and Boss Roosevelt. Thereafter Jim Farley's visits to the White House were infrequent. Last July he went to Hyde Park for a long afternoon's chat with his boss. No one knew exactly what was said, but again something had changed...