Word: flickerings
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...applause was no longer conservative. The charm of an irresistible personality, smoldering through the evening, never revealing more than a flicker of its hidden fire, had burned home its deep impression. When she sang her most famous piece, "Violetera," where she goes among the audience with little violet bunches to offer musingly, withdraw capriciously, bestow impetuously, the starched and bejeweled Manhattanites arose and cheered. Her acknowledgment was?a quiet curtsy. More cheers. She sang an encore. The final "Brava!" The audience went home to talk it over, a new fad that promises to last weeks after Meller's departure...
Were Dr. Walter E. Dandy of Baltimore willing to brag (which he is not), this week he would tell of a brain operation he performed at Johns Hopkins Hospital two weeks ago on 18-year-old Oscar Flicker, freshman of the College of the City of New York and son of Samuel Flicker, realtor...
...revolt at the existence with which his characters were faced. But with "Arrow-Smith" came force, and he had made a living being. Dreiser's characters fade before the gloom of their background dos Passos' get lost in the subway jams of Times Square. But each has an occasional flicker of reality, of being, like mannikins in a show window they sometimes seem alive...
...Dumb Show. In the great dark vault of a cathedral on the Rhine stands a wonder-working image of the Virgin. A thousand candle flames flicker, their brilliance reflected in the gorgeous windows, in the golden vessels of the holy service. Worshippers come in throngs to pray, pale-faced nuns do their devotions and priests perform the sacred ritual under a mantle of incense and church music...
...CHILDREN?A. A. Milne?McKay ($3.50). The author of When We Were Very Young (TIME, Jan. 19) recaptures hearts with these diverting stories for children. The book is one of those big, square, thin books, meant to be read while lying on your tummy, on the floor, in the flicker of firelight. Exquisite pictures, in color, by H. Willebeek Le Maire perfect its charm. There are twelve tales. You like each one best, as you read it, and re-reading them repeats the experience?either backward or forward. Typical verse...