Word: glowingly
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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...finds himself talking into thin air, he has but to throw a switch, and behold! the New Lecture Hall or Emerson D has become a grassy hillside; the seats are moss-covered rocks and the aisles, sparkling trout streams. As for the lecturer himself, he has taken on the glow of eternal youth. If this palls, another switch will change the hall into a grey and gloomy cavern, lined with stalactites and stalagmites; and so on--endless changes, endless variation. Thus can we put our old wine in new bottles, and completely deceive the luckless undergraduate with a couple...
...When she said, 'I glad to see you' there was a glow of amiability, and alluring, light in her countenance that drew one irresistibly to her and her immense, shapely hand enveloped one's own with a pressure and warmth that were overpowering in their convincement of her good heart and illimitable generosity...
...what they lack in momentum. We applaud Mr. Morrison's "The Point of the Joke." Freshly conceived, acutely observant, on speaking terms with earth and eccentricity, the story steps with an easy twinkle. But "Old Dawson's Jumping-Off Place," by Mr. Burden, while it contains passages of imaginative glow and dramatic fire, strains plausibility. Even the sub-title, "From an Alaskan Diary", does not entirely persuade us. The "one last, single, long-drawn howl" is too much for us. We receive without accepting. And so of Mr. Whitman's "Shadows of Our Fancy": more poetry than truth, magnificent settings...