Word: flashed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...readers will wonder why Bubbleman Bowman drinks top-hatted, barechested. In this picture Mr. Bowman is attending a fancy dress party, to which guests were required to travel by air. With two friends Mr. Bowman represented the famous three little men, which advertise Atlantic gasoline. On his hat is "Flash." The three men-"White," "Flash" and "Plus...
Instead, out stepped newlyweds Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Ridgley du Pont (TIME, Sept. 20), brother and sister-in-law of Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. Photographers' bulbs popped all about them. Sighed Mrs. du Pont: "Our honeymoon so far has been nothing but a continuous flash in the face...
Boston newspaper photographers climbed on ladders, lay on the floor and hung from the lights, in all effort to get original angles. The flash bulbs turned solemn Memorial into a scene resembling the opening session of a National Convention...
...four years after Lawrence Sheppard, Father H. D. Sheppard and C. N. Myers, partners in the thriving ($4) Hanover Shoe Co. (128 stores), founded Hanover Shoe Farms near the Sheppard homestead at Hanover, Pa. A strictly blue-ribbon breeding farm, Hanover Shoe Farms owns such famed stallions as Sandy Flash, Dillon Axworthy, the 1926 Hambletonian winner Guy McKinney, and Shirley Hanover's sire, Mr. McElwyn...
...profane, bespectacled young capitalist whose life has been a garage mechanic's dream. Errett Lobban Cord got his start in Los Angeles building "racing" bodies for junked Fords. He drove in dirt track races in Tacoma. He worked in a garage. In his early 20s he became a flash automobile salesman for the old Moon agency in Chicago. In 1924 he walked into the subdued Auburn company, made it hum, became its president in less than a year. He bought control of Duesenberg, the Lycoming motor works and the Stinson passenger airplane business. By the end of 1933 Cord...