Word: flashes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Galsworthy, and Jane Austen's "Sanditon," hitherto unpublished. Despite the CRIMSON'S obituary of Sherwood Anderson, his "Dark Laughter" seems to me a great improvement over some of his other books. Michael Arien's "May Fair" is on the order of his other books, but after the first flash he becomes a little tiresome. Maurice Baring has produced another entertaining and delightfully written novel, "Cat's Cradle." "Suspense" is an unfinished novel by Joseph Conrad. David Garnett's "Sailor's Return," an amusing and well written story, describes strange events in a quiet English village. "The Constant Nymph...
When the Advocate, at the beginning of this College year, appeared with a totally new makeup and decided changes in matter, there were many of us, I fancy, who suspected a flash in the pan, and settled ourselves back comfortably in preparation for panning the fresh. With the appearance of the fifth number of the Advocate in its improved form, however, the tensed muscles of early detractors have perceptibly relaxed, and a noticeable feeling grows among the unliterary and the extra-porticum that the paper, rather more than ever, has something individual to say. Physically, is is crisper...
...Flash After Slow Start...
...Neil McLean, Clydeside Laborite fire-eater, attempted to delay debate in the Commons by in- terjecting a motion calling for a secret session of the House-the first since the War period. Adroit, the Tories refused to heckle over the point, passed the motion in a flash, effectively cut Mr. McLean off from the public audience which he delights to entertain...
Suddenly the road turned, but not the Baldwin motor-it skidded. In a flash between split seconds several near-tragedies became comic. The Baldwin car knocked a farmer's cart, complete with horse and farmer, into the ditch. A car which thundered behind, anonymously piloted, skidded likewise but slued by, missing the assorted debris by inches. As ever, Mr. Baldwin rose to the occasion, imperturbable, good-natured. First he made sure that none of the human beings concerned had been hurt. Then he assisted in quieting the slightly bruised and badly frightened horse; helped to get both horse...