Word: lit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whalen had other troubles. The amusement zone, badly lit and partially unpaved, produced a near riot as angry concessionaires demanded action, urged cutting the admission fee at night from 75? to 50?. Suave President Whalen promised to have the amusement area finished this week, to provide free fireworks at night...
...tragedy toward which they were moving, and even the statesmen who tried to avert it had no conception of its terrible scope. On the evening of Aug. 3, 1914, when Great Britain pondered war, Sir Edward Grey stood at the window of the Foreign Office, watching the lamps being lit in the summer dusk, and said: "The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime." To those who expect another war, his phrase seems optimistic ; many are in a mood to say: "They will never be lit again...
Light from blue-&-red stained-glass windows shone on a flower-banked altar. A yellowish glow lit a dozen show-girl Madonnas, each in a vast brocaded mantle, each in prayerful attitude before a golden sunburst resembling a sacred monstrance. Bearing candles, a procession of choristers in blue-&-white robes of ecclesiastical cut took their stand along the walls, and burst into song. One of the Madonnas, picked out by a spotlight, sang a contralto solo. Then the beautifully trained Rockettes-coiffed like nuns, wearing satiny white habits, carrying bunches of lilies-deployed across the cathedral-like set, lined...
...Perkins (Hist. & Lit.), Mr. Hawkes (German), Dr. Miller (Economics): Tues...
...Perkins (Hist. & Lit.). Mr. Hawkes (German), Dr. Miller (Economics): Tues...