Word: flashed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis Cardinals (National League) whip the Philadelphia Athletics (American League). Not till the game was over did he learn of the sudden death of Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow (see below), though thousands of radio listeners heard Graham McNamee interrupt his play by play description of the game to flash the news. Leaving Shibe Park, a bulletin was handed to President Hoover. Secretary Theodore Joslin spoke for him: "The President is greatly shocked. . . . He will enlarge on that statement when he returns to Washington." ¶ Prior to leaving for his Rapidan camp last weekend, President Hoover breakfasted with Bernard Mannes Baruch...
...round-faced Doeg, the defending champion, who got as far as the semi-final on his courage rather than on his imperfect, left-handed shots. Lott, in the first ten for the last five years, had never reached the final before. In his match with Vines, who was a flash-in-the-pan a year ago but who had won three out of this year's four important invitation tournaments, Lott controlled his temper and his shots in the first set, which he won, after two narrow escapes on his serve, 9-7. Vines won the next...
...steps of the Kurski railroad station. Two dark little men jumped out and ran into the ticket office, first depositing a very large, very neat bundle on the top step. Some sneak thieves were waiting in the shadow of a pillar for just such an opportunity. Quick as a flash they pounced on the package, carried it off to an empty corner of the yards. To the horror of the sneak thieves, the package did not contain food, clothes, or boots, as they hoped, but the strangled body of Professor Ivantsov, neatly swathed in rags...
...more gorgeous settings are being made ready. Rousing climax of this element in the entertainment comes when five tons of chromium are lowered and a host of pretty girls in pale green are set to dancing before it. At another time, scores of undressed dancers with naked heels flash between glimmering crystal scimitars to Ravel's throbbing Bolero. There is also a "pageant of the ages" during which a gigantic papier-mache dinosaur lumbers across with a lady in its mouth. The dinosaur is characteristic of Producer Carroll : in the current Follies, Producer Ziegfeld has girls carried by mere elephants...
...where he now lives, if someone rings him up on the telephone or knocks at his door and j he does not want to answer, he locks himself in the bathroom, turns the water loudly on. He is very sensitive to sensory stimuli. When he gets excited, blinding lights flash through his mind. He retreats to bed. A lifelong bachelor, habitually he goes to bed at 5:30 a. m., rises at 10:30 a. m. But he does not sleep the whole period. Proudly, yet almost plaintively, he explains: "I roll around and work on my problems...