Word: flashlight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discovered that brain-fogged Pilot Bert Acosta was stubbornly steering a course "back to America" after they had reached the coast of France. Biographer Charles J. V. Murphy (Struggle: The Life of Commander Byrd) delicately pictures Acosta collapsing of his own accord, while Byrd stands reluctantly brandishing a flashlight as a bludgeon...
...Lewis speech Mr. & Mrs. Lewis woke up in their hotel, blinked at two Swedish maidens wearing crowns of lighted candles. Known as "Lucia Brides," they served coffee, an old Swedish custom observed in the dawn each Dec. 13. Sensing that a photographer had sneaked into the room to flashlight the prizeman & wife in bed, pajama-clad Mr. Lewis tusseled with the fellow, threw...
...them wrong. In London, Ambassador Dawes thought it would be fun to have Errol function anonymously as a waiter at an embassy dinner. Errol crashed silver and glass about, poured mineral water on a lady's arm, dropped forks under the table and crawled after them with a flashlight, asking guests to move over, please. At last Ambassador Dawes arose, explained, introducing Errol, but some guests, unused to U. S. and New South Wales humor, failed to laugh. Offstage he looks unprepossessing. In his act he still wears the pair of Congress gaiters which he used in his first...
Publisher Hearst, unscathed by the explosion, recalled reports of General Electric's new safe flashlamp, self-contained in a glass bulb (TIME, Aug. 13). A few minutes after returning to his hotel he issued telegraphic orders to all Hearst editors to "throw away all flashlight powder that is on hand to remove the temptation of using it." He ordered the new flashlamps and "candid cameras" (TIME, Feb. 17) for all Hearstpapers...
Long white gloves, high silk hats, flashlight photographers, society reporters, scribbling furtively on folds of paper, critics mooning in their aisle seats-these adjuncts of the advent of another season of grand opera were this week on view in the opera houses of Chicago and Manhattan. In Philadelphia they had appeared the week before...