Word: flushes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...means of getting her to rebound into his embrace, begins to fall in with his view of the situation. She dutifully forbids him access to her house, but only after the preliminary precaution of ascertaining his address. The curtain thereupon falls, and the houselights reveal the hot flush of embarrassment on the faces of the audience...
...Barrie, for example, might speak of Fitzgerald; yet the flash poems of Byron are deep philosophic treatises compared with Fitzgerald's outbursts. Not that every story should be expected to bear its moral or illumine its great Truth...Heaven for-fend!; but certainly something more than the surface flush of artificial fever is to be looked for, in one who pretends to such a reputation as does the author of the "Tales". In one way, it is true, Fitzgerald is not entirely to blame: he is essentially the product of his age--the "jazz age" if you will...
...probably be taken over by Lenin for propaganda work, in which case we will promptly claim a fitting reward). But we digress. In fine, the nub of the matter is this: Russian women have taken up smoking as a means wherewith to assuage their hunger. And in the first flush of enthusiasm they have broadcasted the news to an astounded world...
...there is no tradition to demand outing clothes such as grace out Seniors on their festive day but grant more time. When the fragments of the picnic have been gathered into baskets and the Senators resume their places in the councils of the nation, a firmness of step, a flush of youth, a clearness and simplicity of thought will mark them as the successful Ponce de Leons par excellence, and the picnic will become a stock remedy for legislative stagnation...
...little mystified as to the trend, aims, and scope of the administrative side of "gentleman sports conducted for gentlemen". Perhaps in the last analysis the whole problem rests with those who arrive; rests with them to defined standards, to draw lines, to bring present-day amateurism flush with the might of high opinion...