Word: sparkly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mcneill Whistler. The motto: Who & What is Gertrude Stein? "Widely ridiculed and seldom enjoyed," she is one of the least-read and most-publicized writers of the day. Her incom- prehensible sentences, in which an infuriating glimmer of shrewd sense or subacid humor is sometimes discernible, have generated the spark for many a journalistic wisecrack; except to the adventurous few who have been hardy enough to read her in the original (and to some of those) she has the reputation of a pure nonsense writer. To the man-in-the-street, she is the synonym for what Critic Max Eastman...
...next door, got up and turned on the lights of the bathroom in the rear of his house. He heard someone scurry down the driveway to his garage. Next morning he knew better than to investigate when he found the hood of his automobile open, wires dangling near the spark plugs. Detectives detached a ten-inch nitroglycerin bomb...
...death of Boston's youthful heavy-weight contender has called forth from the press an inevitable gush. Mawkish sentiment has become a characteristic of American journalistic expression; it helps to boost circulation. But beneath the columns of effusion one senses an occasional spark of sincerity. Schaaf played the game ably, cleanly, modestly...
...Ventilation"-panels opening outward like a French window-was done independently by the Fisher Body division. GM's new "starterator"-self starter hitched to accelerator-was brought out by Malcolm Stevenson, oldtime polo player, and John Good. Another GM development for 1933 is a regulator to adjust the spark to the octane-content of gasoline, to ensure complete combustion, avert "knocking." For 1933 there is one development which may assume the importance of 1932's Free-Wheeling: Bendix and Studebaker say, "This is the Power Brake Year...
...least half the burden of blame must be shared by a subway company which provides no extra accommodations for the extra customers, which allows cars to become so crowded that it requires only the spark of a merry jostle to fire mob imaginations. But this is hardly sufficient to excuse the hilarious destruction. Regardless of incentive, no gentleman will forget that there are rights other than his own, that in the event of a riot his name, coupled to that of his College, will make splendid first page news for Boston city editors...