Word: flashes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...story full of interest Mr. Sweetser's volume holds us to the last, for he seems to have put a good deal of his own charming personality into the tale, and we often feel that we are by his side. From the very first sentence, which begins: "Flash! snapped the telegraph operator--," we feel the thrill of the young journalist. As a sidelight on the history of the great European struggle, the book is also valuable. He deals with the trials and tribulations of the various peoples in a very sane and sympathetic manner. The book contains a number...
...prose in this unusual number of the Monthly is scarcely less notable than the verse. Best of all is "Temptation" by Mr. Watson, whose fantastic yet unadorned humor is a gift rare indeed. The saints stirring "uneasily in their thrones" shows the white flash of genius. Mr. Fay's "By Olympus," not-withstanding the "hymadryads" (this issue is defaced by misprints on almost every page), is another little master-piece of delicate comedy. A Bacchus that smiles in his sleeve is surely a god we may all worship. A pleasing prose-poem and Mr. Wright's severe indictment of Chesterton...
...succeeded in showing some real football, especially in the third quarter, when the Crimson took the ball from Harvard's 18-yard line and carried it straight down the field across the Penn. State goal line. It was an 82-yard march made by short but sure advances, a flash of that plow-like attack that has been used so gloriously by past Harvard teams...
...Union, who is sure to have one in his pocket. Guests are warned that they must be respectful to Union attendants, and always use "Sir" or "Madam"--as the case may be--in addressing them. This is insisted on by the committee, after a long conference last night, a flash-light reproduction of which appears in this morning's CRIMSON...
...during the day o Yale Field, both confident of success, both full of determination, anticipation, and other things; and the battle that will be waged will be really royal. Special bulletins at the Union, Hemenway Gymnasium, and various resorts of sports and sportsmen in Cambridge. Boston and vicinity will flash the news of the game, play by play, to the eager thousands who for some reasons or others can't attend the game in person. Anyway, all seats were sold three weeks...