Word: flows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both these toys lay neglected as Master John Boettiger, 5, pursued his recurring ambition to become a White House guard. But not for long. Interests ebb & flow fast at five. Soon, Johnny was back at his habit of riding the Irish Mail or the Express wagon back & forth on the long cement walkway that stretches just south of the sprawling White House, flashing briefly at one end into the vision of his grandfather, the President...
...Berlin a 27-year-old woman was beheaded for snatching another woman's purse. Execution for such trivial offenses was decreed to help stop the flow of stolen ration cards into the hands of speculators...
...perennial reception given Jack Kirkland's earthy vehicle of the poor South is a sad commentary on American audiences. Somehow, in nine years, someone should have had the sense to stop the flow of "adult only" and "daring presentation publicity that has provided the abortion with packed houses. Yes people will be dragged to see the ramshackle spectacle once, but only the degenerate or perverted could have the wild-eyed desire to go back and see two and a half hours of unadulterated country ham again...
...tricks of the accomplished mugger, stealing every scene, cussing, spitting, pinching, and generally acting as if he enjoyed every minute of his poverty. It seems as though James Barton is almost too good a comedian, for his "heavy' scenes misfire, with the audience waiting in vain for a flow of damns and hells...
Duncan Norton-Taylor observed that the correspondents' technique was to pick their spot and hope that action would flow in their direction. But finally, to his surprise and consternation, he found too much action flowing his way in one of the Pacific war's most furious naval battles-the action of July 5-6 in Kula Gulf in which U.S. forces sank three Jap cruisers and five destroyers at the cost of one ship, the Helena. He describes the battle in words which give C. S. Forester a run for his nautical money...