Word: flushes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John OHara's Where's the Game? -still worth more than a white chip. Some of them, though, seem to begin after the deal has started and end before the reader gets his fifth card. Best of the lot, perhaps, is Somerset Maugham's Straight Flush, a poignant tale of a man burdened with failing eyesight, and not idiocy, who chose the one time in 64,973 chances to misread his hand and toss a small straight, all pink into the discard. The gentleman gave up his hobby of a lifetime and directed his future interests toward...
Advance Scout. In Indianapolis, Harley J. Driskell got 60 days in jail and a $77.75 fine after he sat in his car off a highway, held up a sign that warned passing motorists of a radar speed trap ahead, ran into a cop who approached to flush him from his post...
...first lieutenant in the medical corps, by V-J day had progressed, via half a dozen U.S. bases, to Randolph Field, Texas, known affectionately to those who served there as the "Worst Point of the Air." At Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., in one day during the first flush of demobilization, Dr. Stapp examined the eyes, ears, noses and throats of 600 men-"a nightmare relieved only by the thought that I might have been a proctologist...
...supporters of Senator Earle Clements and found his own political dynasty. And, with the end of his machine at hand, Boss Clements' own future looks bleak: during the campaign Happy repeatedly swore to end Clements' career in Washington if he won the governorship. But in the flush of victory last week, Happy took it all back. "That was all made in the heat of the campaign," he said. Hardly anyone-least of all Earle Clements-believed...
...final victory brought a flush of belated pride to Peale's expatriate fellow artists. Benjamin West wrote asking for sketches of Continental uniforms. Stuart came home in 1793, to begin making portraits of the aging Washington. Peale himself went on to found the first scientifically arranged natural-history museum in America, was the prime mover in founding the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1805, the oldest U.S. art school still in existence (TIME, Feb. 7). When Peale died in 1827, one of his finest tributes was the memory of an old Continental who said: "He fit and painted...