Word: glimmering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...author has been extremely apt in his choice of similes and metaphors to clarify the technical language of physics which necessarily permeate such a volume. The ordinary reader, therefore, begins to see the glimmer of the movements of mentality traced by Professor White-head from the seventeenth century to the present time, even though be falls to follow much of the reasoning that lies beneath unfamiliar terminology. And although it requires a deep study, despite the fact that the work is for beginners, to to grasp the full meaning, nevertheless the treatment of scientific ideas in scientific terms is more...
...sunset of an old administration is generally a strange, distorted hour. Shadows are longest then and the last red glimmer of official prestige is at its richest. Would the President-Elect eclipse the outgoing President? Probably not, for Mr. Hoover is ever cautious. He will sequester himself in his S street home, strive to cast no shadows at all. ¶Mr. Hoover and his party skipped all over southern Florida last week. Bad weather drove him back from his west coast tarpon fishing. He inspected the Okeechobee flood area, saw tent colonies, praised sugar cane and truck growing...
...soft fall of flakes is the ornate Cathedral of St. Basil, multicolored cupolas and towers bedizened with snow. Beyond lie the grim walls and towers of the Kremlin. The people have just heard the ukase. They stand in clusters, joyfully inarticulate, habitually stolid. The bizarre tints of the Cathedral glimmer like a huge lantern of faith above and beyond the awestruck host...
Apparently a truism, President Lowell's statement assumes the pale glimmer of the half-truth under critical inspection. The fashionable institutions, according to his speech, may survive for some time because of their reputations, but unless they approach the educational merits offered by their rivals, they will fall into grave danger. All of which sounds well, but means little. Being president of one of our foremost exclusive universities, Mr. Lowell is in a position to make such a statement without laying himself open to accusations of envy and pride, but we wonder if he has any very clear idea...
Though he shuffles off with a chorine of the Manhattan Follies, she cannot bring herself to marry a princely cattle rancher of the prairies, whose great heart and expansive properties are spread at her feet. She finds herself completely subject to her first, trashy love; follows him through his glimmer of success and his nights of degeneracy, hopelessly, happily enslaved by a pair of stuffed, checked pants...