Word: flashings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Anthony made his big killing with a flash success called Ballyhoo (top circ. 2,000,000), which was full of pretty good and not so good humor based on the repetition of the name Zilch. Ballyhoo satire on American advertising made so much money for Editor Anthony during the depression that he had a hard time staying broke. But he did: he blew it on a Broadway revue, on a trip to Europe (which bored him), on openhanded loans, on the horses, on bigger-than-ever drinking bouts...
...possible consideration at the United Nations health parley in June, he outlined a scheme: a globe-girdling network of public health stations, serviced by a medical "intelligence system" which would spot epidemics at their source, flash the news to other stations by radio. Air travelers would be immunized before entering a disease area, overhauled thoroughly when leaving. Travelers who refused immunization would be warned that they had been exposed, alerted on symptoms; word of their exposure would precede them to their next destination, where they would be rechecked...
...into the traffic of the world. But we had to go: and perhaps one of the questions you had taught us to ask we secretly wanted to ask you, the very fountainhead. You had told us that to understand knowledge would show us The Way more certainly than a flash of faith: but wasn't it faith that drew us to you? Your science had justified to us the conviction of Christ and of our own country's founders that our fellow men were our brothers and equals: but had you showed us how to love the man who still...
Last week brought a gleam in the darkness, a first soft glow in the terrifying gloom which seven months before, after the blinding flash over Hiroshima, had engulfed the world. Perhaps there was a workable and reasonable way of saving the world from the atom...
...heart," is given its full power. In the transition scene which takes the audience from Falstaff's death to the invasion of France, the Chorus makes a final appearance alone against the night sky, then recedes and fades as the movie takes over from him. In a flash of imagination, Britain's armada is disclosed through mist as the Chorus, already invisible, says: Follow, follow...