Word: sparked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spark. His courtship was in keeping with his background. One night at a card party he met bright-eyed young Jeanne Renault. They were partners at charlemagne (a four-handed game played with 34 cards), and soon Jeanne told her friends that the shy young lawyer was mon idéal. Her friends warned her that it would not be easy to catch St. Laurent, a studious chap who spent most of his evenings with his law books. But when Louis started corresponding a short time later, everyone agreed: "C'est l'étincelle [It's the spark...
...income-earners. (He now gets 7%.) He has earned his pay not so much for making good pictures as for picking good men for the job and keeping an eye on them. Until his death in 1936, Producer Irving Thalberg gave M-G-M its creative spark. After that, quality sagged, but last year-when the wartime movie boom had clearly ended-L.B. brought in Dore Schary to make repairs...
Fine fielding plays characterized the game--by Mort, Dunn and Tom Cavanaugh for Harvard, Dowd and Lambert for Yale. Essayen responded with three singles to spark the Crimson's offense...
...girl who gets rescued from the fire, and who indirectly caused it, is Susan Hayward. Pretty enough to spark all sorts of explosions, Susan gets this one under way by vowing vengeance on a local oil baron (Lloyd Gough) whom she holds responsible for the death of her father. While trying to beat him at his own game, she succeeds in developing oil wells by the dozen, and presently finds that her lust for vengeance has turned into a lust for money and power. Meanwhile, her emotional life develops a three-way split between her loyalty to a rich Indian...
...idea was simple indeed. The way to stop spark plugs from broadcasting, he decided, was to enclose the ignition wires in metal shields leading from the magneto to the plugs. Thus, there would be a return path for the high-frequency elements in the spark current (the source of the trouble). The plugs would go right on broadcasting, but the waves they created would stay inside the shield...