Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America, by Chris Arnade (Sentinel, 304 pp.) Flash powder, made from a composite of metallic fuel and an oxidizer, requires ...

But Francis Michael (“Slim”) Lynch makes good pictures with either machine ... the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in the acrid era of flash powder, singed eyelashes and burning lace curtains.

An FBI bomb technician X-rayed the compound and concluded that it contained a granular powder consistent with a "commercial grade firework" and "suspected to be a mixture of flash powder and the ...