Word: flashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eager, gossipping headlines of my newspaper from the stricken faces of my fellows bowed down by the dread anticipation of today's examinations. The war half over for me, with two examinations passed and almost forgotten and two waiting several days hence. Across my mind a quick flash of business cycles, wage differentials, currency restrictions, and then the determinations to forget these dolorous tasks for yet another day until Cambridge may become less like the Belgian Congo and more like Cambridge...
...silver trumpets blew and loud shrilled the choir boys: "Vivat! Vivat Georgius Rex!" With a rustle like the wind, all the crowded stands of Westminster Abbey rose up with a flash of crimson and ermine, gold, diamonds, silver, blue, scarlet and green. The helmeted Gentlemen-at-Arms snapped to attention and down the deep blue carpet that stretched the full length of the Abbey came George VI to his Coronation with all the pomp and panoply of a medieval ceremony more than 1,000 years...
...always had a full share. Peace rallies, military science parades, communist conclaves have elbowed each other for a position at the University news front. But seldom have students been given a more dramatic opportunity to combine political and humanitarian virtue and to spend money than by the most recent flash in the news pan. A Harvard Ambulance, resplendent in white paint and red lettering, bouncing dangerously across the Spanish terra to rescue democracy, is indeed a pretty picture...
Curious observers pressed closer to the four to investigate what so absorbed these mighty intellects. A flash in the sun, and a thud in the ground disclosed the answer.--mumblety pegl...
Breaking in on the festivities of Leverett House Thursday night photographers armed with suit cases full of flash bulbs and tiny candid cameras kept publicity hounds on their toes most of the evening in an effort to waste no longer their fragrance on the desert air. Although for this type of person the photographic mania may present no menace, to the modest, shrinking violet type it is definitely a disturbing element. Life may have been an invited guest to Leverett's party Thursday night, but to most of the other guests it was certainly unexpected. It is the forlorn hope...