Word: sparkly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into gay life with a whoop, for three years hardly came up for air. Five feet six, curly-haired, stocky, with blubber nose and lips, long gilt fingernails, he was not handsome, but his bursting energy made him popular with a fast young set who called him "Cricket" and "Spark." Drinking, drabbing, dicing and duelling filled his nights and days. On the side, he wrote a six-canto poem, Ruslan and Liudmila, many a dangerously political verse. The Tsar's police soon had him under surveillance, but were never able to prove that he was a member...
...Pope Spark Plug...
Easily the outstanding man on the ice with his two goals and an assist, Ralph Pope was the spark which drove the newly formed third line to its brilliant display of hockey. Captain George Ford, although he did not figure in the scoring, was again ragging the puck all over the ice and keeping the vaunted Queens attack from getting started...
...peace lover attempted public auto-crucifixion last week, but in Manhattan the biggest, most active anti-war machine of its kind, the Emergency Peace Campaign, received from abroad its livest spark plug. Now almost a year old (TIME, March 16 et seq.), the E. P. C. announced that during January and February some 300 speakers, laymen and clergymen will talk for peace in 1,000 U. S. cities. At their head will be a lame British spinster of 60 whom many a religionist considers the greatest preacher of her sex in the world - Dr. A. (for Agnes) Maude Royden...
...material he has improved the standard of Harvard basketball to such a remarkable degree that he has received the attention and praise both of the student body and of the contending teams and coaches. Harvard's re-entrance into the Eastern League in 1934 seemed to be just the spark necessary to start basketball on the upgrade; the squad spirit improved, and more and better men came to Fesler's hands...