Word: flickerer
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...Harvard . . . Our collaboration in college came about by accident. I was banging out a melody at the piano, one afternoon, when Sherwood dropped in. He listened for a few minutes and I turned to him and said, "All I need is a lyric." Without so much as a flicker, he grabbed some paper and began drafting the rhythm on which to base his lines. I have heard of rapid composers but I doubt if any other American lyricist could equal the speed of Sherwood, or, for that matter, could compose finer poems. His skill was uncanny...
...satisfied with the modest architectural glories of 1874, or even with imitation Gothic? With a little imagination and more funds the true splendors of the Middle Ages could be recalled. The glare of electric lights should be replaced by the romantic and less expensive flicker of torches. Mass produced desks and chairs are an anachronism; more in keeping would be oaken banquet tables and hand wrought benches. Crossed lances and suits of armor would be more appealing than flags and plaques. In keeping with the medieval atmosphere, the psychological laboratories in the basement should become dungeons and the white mice...
...letter filled with secrets known to have been stolen from the French by a German spy. Major de Clam's theory was that Dreyfus would recoil in terror at the familiar facts and figures, thus revealing himself as the spy. When Dreyfus took the dictation without a flicker, the major turned on him and shouted: "You are accused of high treason." Two months later, Dreyfus was court-martialed, found guilty of selling secrets to the Germans, cashiered from the army and sentenced to deportation and exile for life...
...straw mat (tatami), changes into a kimono and walks straight out of the Western world until tomorrow morning. The central room, except for mats and sliding panels and perhaps a low table, is without furniture; the eye is left free to contemplate the one picture and the single flicker of white plum blossom arranged carefully beneath...
Under the pale light of the quarter moon and the red flicker of a Hayes Bickford sign, historic Fancuil Hall opened its doors briefly Sunday night as hundreds of "Citizens for McCarthy" poured in to hear Roy M. Cohn and other advertised patriots...