Word: whirling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Archconservative, 59-year-old General Dutra was a thorough and frequent revolutionist until he connected with a successful insurrection. The Revolution of 1904 caught him up in its whirl even before he got through his cadet's training; consequently Brazilian officerdom speaks of him as a "Pescoqo de Sola" (Leatherneck)-a ranker. In the 1924 revolution, Dutra again fought the Government unsuccessfully. But he hit the jackpot in 1930 when he helped Vargas' "gauchos" ride into power. Since then he has been a staunch pillar of Brazil's neo-fascist "New State...
...Canteen's gala opening had been more Irish than French-it lasted three nights. The first night, a sort of benefit running to diamonds rather than dog tags, was the biggest social event in Paris since the liberation. In a whirl of color, General Joseph-Pierre Koenig, the British Ambassador and Lady Diana Duff Cooper, Prince Achille Murat. Lucien Lelong and a host of other celebrities drank champagne at $30 a bottle, netted the Canteen almost...
...Standard device for demonstrating light's pressure is the radiometer: a glass box containing a set of vanes which have one side polished, the other painted black. When light strikes the vanes, it makes them whirl, because of the difference in the amount of light energy absorbed by the dark and polished sides...
Oliver Smith had devised some unique flickering officers in the lighting which contribute to the rapid pacing and the general satirical undercurrent criticizing the whirl and rush of New York. The timing is shoddy now and the play lacks the sparkle of continuity that its mentors will undoubtedly give it before Broadway...
...last what we have all feared at one time or another has happened. But let us give you the story first. The story goes (roommate Ken Wills officiating) that Charlie Rityen was heading out Sunday morning for another whirl with his favorite officer WAVE and picked up Robbie Robinson's hat by mistake...