Word: flashings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interested in the romance of flying. While other officers spun yarns of the wild blue yonder, Benny studied stock reports. He was murderously good at poker, insisted on high stakes that sometimes ran to $3,000 pots. For an Army officer, he seemed unusually wealthy. He liked to flash $100 bills, recently bought a big, colonial house on Long Island...
...major pastime is long walks . . . with a little ingenuity you can stay lost all day." ¶ Skidmore: "A few precautions should be taken. . . . All is lost, if you try to take in the ponies [Skidmore is at Saratoga Springs] and the Skid girls the same weekend. They both flash those big brown eyes, and you're a broken man." ¶ Bryn Mawr: "Traditional hangout of scholarly women. . . . But girls are girls, these are just a little smarter." ¶ Bennington: ". . . The rules for progressive education clearly state that girls can party all night. . . . It's a long trip...
Halsey and Collaborator Bryan play one game throughout the Story which will annoy all but the Admiral's most devout fans. Halsey is made to strike a modest pose but permits the "editor" to enter his citations and whatever flash compliments piled up during a period of wartime hysteria...
...last week, eight record versions of this jangling jingle had been turned out, and Civilization was creeping up bestseller lists. It was one of those flash, expendable tunes bound to be a public craze, and then a public nuisance. Hilliard and Sigman have already written another song. Theme: the Thousand Islands. Explained Tunesmith Sigman: "We may not be good songwriters, but we're fast...
Peruvian earthquakes followed by landslides and flash floods had claimed at least 43 lives by last night according to official dispatches which summarized casualties and damage since tremors first began yesterday...