Word: flushing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Margalo Gillmore's portrayal of the girl who, without wanting to, draws the youth back into the shadows of mediocrity. There are other excellent performances by Edward Pawley, Dudley Digges, Elizabeth Patterson and Armina Marshall. Mr. Digges also is to be credited with the direction. The production is flush with the Theatre Guild's usual high level...
...Then this fool stepped back and swung his right against my jaw with every bit of his power. It landed flush, and stiffened me where I stood. Nobody saw the punch but Eddie Eagan who was standing there. And that was the last thing I remembered for two days...
...Majesty is addicted to coining and obeying such dull maxims as: "By respecting traditions we honor the Dead, who have created them through toil and labor." Quite tame is the present Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands, plump product of a mother who has definitely settled down. Birthday Flush. On the 70th birthday of Queen Emma, last week, the chief demonstration took the form of a cavalry charge by 150 horsemen up the leafy avenue of the Summer Palace. The cavalrymen were of 21 nations and are in Holland as equestrian performers in the famed Olympic Games...
President Harding's favorite evening game was poker, but there came an evening when President Harding had to think about Oil instead of drawing to a straight flush. Sinclair and another big oilman, Edward L. Doheny from the Pacific Coast, an old friend of Fall's, were anxious for some leases on the naval oil reserves at Elk Hills, Calif., and the Teapot Dome in Natrona County, Wyo. To accommodate them, Secretary Fall and Edwin Denby, Secretary of the Navy, prepared an executive order, transferring these reserves from the Navy to the Department of the Interior. President Harding...
...shanks; he gets all his effects by raising one corner of his triangular mustaches, by flipping one hand in a small arc to indicate either the tremendous futility of life or his willingness to marry a rich & beautiful woman. In Serenade he impersonates a young composer who, in the flush of success, takes advantage of his wife's good nature. After she retaliates by taking advantage of his credulity, gently implying the presence of a lover where no lover exists, the last fadeout shows his boots and her slippers nestling together outside the door of their room. The events...