Word: flushes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Honeymoon is concerned with the love of a U. S. Senator for a bubble dancer. Sole innovation afforded by this antique farce is the realistic offstage flush of a toilet, which reveals to the amorous statesman that his sweetheart is entertaining another gentleman in her boudoir...
...which Dr. Bridges calls "Lightning Bug," looks something like the Dymaxion designed by Architect Richard Buckminster Fuller (TIME, June 12, 1933), but is smaller and squattier. It is almost perfectly streamlined, even the license plates and tail-lamp being recessed into the body and covered with Pyralin windows flush with the streamlining. There are no door handles; the doors must be opened with special keys. Dr. Bridges pronounced the Lightning Bug crash-proof and carbon-monoxide-proof. "My whole aim," said he, "was to show what could be done to attain safety, economy and readability in a small...
Build me a home in a garden With my window flush with the lawn Where life overflows on the heart of a rose Where birds may wake me at dawn...
...surprise, thus starting the invaders out of the Kingdom and Joan on her way to the fires of martyrdom. As for peerless Actress Cornell, spectators found her full of the youthful fire that danced around her Juliet, approved the added touch of honest rusticity which brought the full flush of credibility to her Joan...
...then melt away again into the blue of the East. Not a word would any Rhineland official say to confirm the report that German soldiers were really coming, but since 5 a. m. grapevine rumor had been spreading through Cologne, making blue German eyes sparkle and apple cheeks flush brighter...