Word: flashings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kenny, Arthur S. Pier '35 and John P. Schen '35, were bunched together near the finish, but the Purple flash finally stepped ahead to clinch second place, with Pier and Schen following in that order...
...women, their teeth as the teeth of lions; and they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron, and tails like unto scorpions; and their power was to hurt men. "I know you," the figure shrieked hysterically, "you're the Bible and Shakespeare examinations!" There came a mighty flash, and all was emptiness...
...swimming hole. Then, "in no time at all he was president of the road," bullying the directors of Chicago & South Western Railway into buying a little road for spite. Then a flashback to his first trackwalking days, his courtship of prim, big-eyed Sally (Colleen Moore). Then a flash forward to his troubles with his spoiled collegian son at whose angry look he says, "Don't look at me that way, boy. You're giving away too much weight" Then a flashback to his self-education when ambitious Sally walked track in his stead, his first promotion...
...functions into a world-wide organization primarily interested in helping the U. S. businessman sell his goods abroad. If Johannesburg wanted washing machines or Brisbane underwear or Budapest typewriters or Edmonton corkscrews, what came to be known as "Hoover's Foreign Legion" would hear of it first and flash the news to the Department which then broadcast trade orders to U. S. industry. Herbert Hoover thought foreign trade was able to make or break domestic prosperity and to this end the Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce was his favorite lever in trying to pry a sodden nation...
...Rosenthal case, his "favorite"' murder of all time; saw the S. S. Carpathia steam into New York harbor with Titanic survivors; covered the three-cornered presidential campaign. He has covered every major political campaign since then (except 1924). His return to reporting last week was with a dazzling flash: he got photographed with his first big interviewee, John P. Morgan...