Word: flashed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that it will help people to live a beautiful and true life but because it is always interesting to hear famed men praise or blame the eternal verities, this collection of credos is offered for serious summer reading. Perhaps from this display of fireworks you may catch a guiding flash; you may end up a Confucian worse confounded. Views represented are various. Unanthropomorphic Einstein "cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own-a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe...
...flash in tin-pan alley, it was a typical troubadour's success ? quick, dramatic, amazingly profitable. Half a year ago, though he had a chauffeur to drive his Rolls-Royce, Morton Downey was wondering if he had enough money to hire an orchestra and open a nightclub. He had just come back from London where in 1927 the Prince of Wales liked his voice so much that he had him sing an encore eleven times, but that was no guarantee that he would be able to make a luxurious living in Manhattan. Troubadour Downey had nothing much...
...into an exchange of remarks in English with Mr. Henderson, who said in a general way that Austria and Germany ought to take no further step about Zollverein while this issue was before the Court. Dr. Schober agreed in a general way in English. Quick as a flash Uncle Arthur asked him to repeat and confirm his "pledge." Caught, flushing darkly, Dr. Schober did as the Scotsman asked. In Berlin irate editors soon echoed former German Finance Minister Peter Reinhold who said: "Dr. Schober surrendered completely to Mr. Henderson chiefly because he failed to grasp the situation through insufficient knowledge...
...rapid shifting of suspicion that Subway Express had a successful Broadway run. It was a much better play than it is a picture, principally because the single setting, which gave the play its concentration, cheats the camera of its most vital effect, the ability to move in a flash of a second over all space and time...
...Bellamy Trial. As a mystery story, this courtroom melodrama was a neat sifting and juggling of suspicious testimony, adequately convincing. As a play concocted by Author Frances Noyes Hart and Playwright Frank E. Carstarphen it is labored, lacking any of the dramatic flash which is found in the trial scene of The Silent Witness, its current cousin on Broadway...