Word: flicker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Victoria the Great is a whopping English imitation of a whopping Hollywood imitation of whopping English pageantry. In 113 minutes 60 years flicker past. The cast boasts 72 names, innumerable extras, is so huge that the part of Disraeli is taken not by one actor, but by both Derrick Demarney, who looks rather younger, and Hugh Miller, who looks rather older than George Arliss. Splendor nourishes itself on magnificence until, with all England jubilant, the picture bursts into a hopeful climax in technicolor...
...When George Bernard Shaw told her that tennis should be played by nude young women in the long grass of the meadows, she "tried not to let a flicker of expression cross my face...
...from the corners of his opponent's court, he took the second set, 6-4, after von Cramm had had a lead of 4-3. When von Cramm broke Budge's service from 40-love in the second game of the third set, it was his last flicker of resistance. Budge then won four games in a row, carelessly lost von Cramm's service, won his own for set, match & title...
...from his Attorney General attesting that each Federal judge now has to handle nearly half again as many cases as in 1913, that congestion and delay result. His reasoning was impeccably high-minded as he developed it for the newshawks, but as he continued he let his political purpose flicker through...
...Seaman Joseph Curran, leader of the East Coast shipping strike, organized a march of 1,500 strikers from Atlantic ports to reinforce the Washington picketers. Derisive shipowners asserted that the parade of cheering, dungareed men who rode into the Nation's Capital in battered trucks was the last flicker of the East Coast strike. Never authorized by Union heads, as is the Pacific Coast strike, the Atlantic fight has been nowhere near as clear-cut. On the Pacific last week after Si days there were still 235 ships tied up and only foreign bottoms cleared port. On the Atlantic...