Word: lit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vienna, a little room in an upholsterer's house was draped in black, lit with candles. A hundred years ago it was Schubert's death chamber. Last week it was empty save for an altar and a marble bust. Yet there, for tribute, gathered highest dignitaries to hear the solemn mass pronounced by His Eminence Gustave Frederic Cardinal Piffl, Archbishop of Vienna. Outside the little house the street was roped off, guarded by police. Only honored guests were admitted-and 500 school children who sang Schubert songs...
This Year of Grace was heralded by fanfares, tuckets and sennets such as seldom announce anything less than the birth of a Prince of Wales or the entrance of Lit-tul Lillian Leitzel. Trans-Atlantic commuters who saw its opening at the Pavilion Theatre in London were reduced to choked, ecstatic finger-tip kissing in their attempts to relate its manifold charms. Jesse Matthews, they ultimately gasped, sings "A Room with a View." . . . Tillie Losch's fluttering hands, fanciful feet . . . brilliant . . . divine...
...plan of a special "Lit", for Freshmen is bully. Why not have a special "Record" and "News" for them...
Department Stores. At New Orleans, Birmingham, Memphis and Louisville are City Stores Co. department stores; at Newark and Elizabeth, N. J., are stores affiliated with City Stores. That chain last week paid $10,521,000 for control of Lit Bros., Philadelphia department store...
Late Georgian. Menella's children by Jamie were twins. Ludovic married sensibly enough; but Isabella roved the woods, or sought out her brother's foils in the attic, and spent hours "fencing with unstable shadows cast by the candles that she lit in the dusk." When Ludovic killed her lover, a beautiful and outcast Jew, Isabella in turn killed her brother, and fled with a gypsyman to whom she bore seven sons and a daughter...