Word: flashed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quick as a flash the bishop thundered: "In this house I will allow no offensive remarks against the Führer!" Good Catholics in the congregation beamed admiration at this neat reference to Bachelor Hitler, and the Nazi flushed, sat down...
...PRAIRIE GROVE-Donald Culross Peattie-Simon & Schuster ($2.50). Lush essay on an island grove of the Illinois prairie, with informative flash backs on its prehistoric bird & animal life, less original glimpses of its pioneer days...
...vaulting cineminds who conceived pictures like A Trip to Mars, By Rocket to the Moon, Jupiter's Thunderbolt, a mild exercise in ingenuity. But how such out-planeters might talk, especially in conversation with men from Hollywood, has lately presented a weighty problem in linguistics. Flash Gordon is fortunate enough to find some English-speaking Martians, but with true comic-strip vigor, he usually manages to make actions speak louder than words...
...York Journal-American, knows little about playing parlor games, including bridge, but he does know a good thing when he sees it. Over a year ago, when he read that "Monopoly" was selling by millions, his newspaper mind envied such profitable circulation. Forthwith he devised a newspaper game, "Flash News." It was too complicated to sell much more than 10,000 sets (at $2.50) and is presently being simplified. From "Flash News" Editor Spiro did learn, however, that there is money in games-if you don't play them. Soon he secured rights to solitaire "Auto bridge" (a British...
Despite her humorless yen to dress her poems in proud, premature long pants, Poet Rukeyser succeeds, in The Book of the Dead, in giving a clear flash of what makes the contemporary U. S. hard for everybody to take: At Gauley Bridge, W. Va., a hill being tunneled on a hydro-electric project turned out to be 90-even 99% pure silica, of great metallurgical value. Consequences: the silica, for greater speed, profit, was mined dry; the tunnel workers developed silicosis, died like ants in a flour bin; lawyers representing the workers charged their clients some 50% of the piddling...