Word: lit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole fleet is lit up!-er-by lights! It is like fairyland. The ships are covered by fairy lights. . . . Even the destroyers are lit up! The big boats are lit...
...right ladies and gentlemen, I'm telling the people around me to shut their damned mouths. . . . Everything is lit up. The U. S. battleship New York provides a particularly brilliant spectacle. ... In a minute they are going to fire some rockets...
Eventually the torrent of mingled loyalty and curiosity which is this year again carrying hundreds of travellers from all over the world to London carried Fanny and her father to the great gas-lit metropolis. Here she was allowed, at times almost forced, by her indulgent father to see all the sights and miss nothing for which London or its environs was famous, while he condescended to spend a goodly portion of his time at an establishment known simply as "White's" from which he returned each evening in great spirits...
...catch a crowded trolley car . . . A well-dressed woman from New York, puffing a cigarette in a corner of her mouth, pin a red rose on a shabby beggar who was blind . . . . A thousand black birds break their journey through the sky and stop at a marble ruin lit with moonlight . . . . Mussolini, the Pope and George Santayana...
Allen all, if Lampy is Reidy to play, isn't lit and can keep his Armstrong and off the Benchley might Binger run or two in but Jester between you 'n me, I, Hu Flung Huey OcC and Sage of the Age says Crimson 23-Lampy...