Word: darkness
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...juleps are still to be obtained, but where, on the other hand, the residents have felt not call to assassinate their paster. There may be found the works of Joseph Addison, a social critic who wrote as a gentleman for other gentlemen, and who will be read is such dark corners long after Mr. Mencken has jostled past St. Peter and gone to inspect the boobs of Paradise...
...Motion picture theatres are too dark," declared Guy A. Henry, General-Director of the Eye Sight Conservation Council of America, in an article to the Crimson. "People are unnecessarily subjected to eye strain," he asserted, "in poorly lighted auditoriums...
...human eye does not function to its best advantage in the dark or in looking at a fairly well illuminated object when the eye itself is surrounded by darkness," according to Mr. Henry. "There should prevail as high a degree of general illumination as may be consistent with securing clear and easy vision of the picture...
...spectator's range of vision. A faulty shade leaking a little light in the orchestra or over the organ will be a source of annoying glare for even though the intensity of the reflected light from the screen may be much greater, the direct light by reason of the dark background will by contrast be blinding in effect and harmful...
...heavy-swung, dark-curtained private car rumbled from Mexico City last week to Laredo, Texas. It was the Hidalgo, sumptuous equipage of rich Seņor Alberto Pani, said to be the only Mexican statesman whose word is trusted by U. S. financiers (TIME...