Word: flashings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Albert the Good, a dual biography of Victoria and Albert by Mr. Bolitho which first caught everyone's eye because it was illustrated with gaudy, excruciating Victorian color plates and valentines-these discreetly printed with not a single reference to them in the text. This clever method of flash-sale got people to buy what they found to be just about the best Royal Family book since Strachey's Queen Victoria. Next year Biographer Bolitho did England's affluent Jew, a stuffily imposing Alfred Mond: First Baron Melchett. By last year he was the Royal Family...
...ability to roll up their sleeves; the pizazz, in short, that carried through Crecy and Agincourt and numerous Senate investigations and one Roosevelt and half of another, up to date. And what revived our flagging faith in our destiny was not the champagne or the swing time or the flash-light bulbs in the Stork Club, but an incident outside a particularly exclusive shop in Fifth Avenue...
...Winter Sports season may be nearly over; but the final flash is going to be brilliant one, for the undergraduate or graduate around Cambridge who likes to follow the fortunes of the Crimson athletic teams has two brilliant Saturday cards in store for him. Today, the final game on the hockey schedule with the week Eli five in the Boston Garden is featured, while he who prefers the turf to the ice can go over to the Commonwealth Armory and watch the Varsity polo team seek revenge over Yale. As a warmer-up for these two there comes the basketball...
...circus figures were skillfully animated toys, but there is an ancient artistic problem back of Calder's Mobiles: the attempt to capture the flash and beauty of bright metals and bits of color actually in motion. Ten years ago the same problem greatly troubled such an arch-conservative as the late Bashford Dean, curator of arms & armor at the Metropolitan Museum, who begged the museum trustees to allow him to put real men at arms stalking about the corridors in the belief that his beloved harnesses were empty shells unless worn by living models...
...Freshman basketball team will tackle Tilton Academy at 7 o'clock in a preliminary contest. So far this year the Yardlings have shown themselves to be a fairly strong team with Chet Legg, former Exeter flash, usually leading as high score...