Word: flashed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...series, meticulously following each note of the score. Surprise was that ordinary concertgoers would catch the fever, that by last week when the cycle approached its halfway mark the Schnabel recitals had become a popular rage. Seldom have audiences been more attentive. There are pianists who play with more flash than Schnabel, who hammer out louder crescendos, make their pianissimos more consistently haunting. But few have been known to give so much substance to their music, to play with such clarity, such a grasp of structure. The many moods Schnabel projects offer eloquent proof of the years he has devoted...
...passing such names as John Dos Passes, Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner. But these would all be sideshows. Most phenomenally popular book of the quinquennium, he would report, was Hervey Allen's Anthony Adverse. By 1935 critics who had tried to blink it off as simply a big flash in a shallow pan were opening their eyes wider, slowly admitting that for the umpteenth time Romance was again rearing its tousled head. With such an enormous good companion as Anthony Adverse to make smooth their path, romances everywhere came in on the wings of the morning, set off down...
...outstanding men who should dominate the forward walls. Austie Harding, first line center, the fastest skater on the squad and the possessor of an almost infallible shot, will undoubtedly hold his position among the favored. The Milton Academy wingmen who seem to be slated to flank the Noble's flash are Pete Stone and Miff Scaife. Eight of the Crimson goals against Framingham were rung up by this trio...
...remainder of the ballots are pretty evenly distributed between Flash Gordon and his rocket gun, Blondie and her troublesome babe and husband, Webster's Timid Soul, and daring detective Dick Tracy. Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of Tarzan, must content himself with being the choice of a single...
...word, this Snowden outburst was pathetic. Labor's leaders in Britain are such colorless characters today that for the Party even to flash in the pan last week ghostly Philip Snowden had to rise from his political grave. Reporting on his prophecy, London correspondents canvassed political wiseacres, cabled that the National Government are expected to lose not 200 seats but perhaps 100, which would renew their lease on Power for another five years with an ample majority...