Word: sunburst
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
Four times a day for six days (five on Saturdays), a vast, synthetic sunburst explodes in the auditorium of Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, world's biggest theatre. Sometimes the 75-piece Music Hall Symphony Orchestra plays almost prayerfully. Sometimes it lashes and groans through a hot, new delirium. The 46 young ladies in the Rockette troupe are equal to either occasion. They can move shyly and demurely in ballet tulle. They can kick and whirl giddily to shrieking brass. Exact, machine-like execution has made the Rockettes known wherever U. S. precision dancing is known...
...domed grand foyer they will be faced by Muralist Ezra Winter's 60-ft. canvas showing the Fountain of Youth planted by God on a mountaintop, ringed by chasms. This canvas will follow the sweep of a huge marble and bronze stairway. In the auditorium a gigantic sunburst will explode above the proscenium arch. Structural glass will be pocked with mosaics of cork, murals of linoleum. The wall coverings will be pigskin. Tube aluminum furniture will be upholstered in hairhide. There will be 16-sided lounging rooms with copper ceilings...
...Hongkew Park. U. S. Consul General Edwin S. Cunningham, oldest, most experienced of Shanghai diplomats, warned Japanese authorities that such a celebration would be dangerous, but nobody paid attention. In massed squares battalion after battalion of Japanese infantry goose-stepped across the parade ground, each with its fluttering sunburst guidon. In the front of the reviewing stand were many of the highest officers in the Japanese Army & Navy: Vice Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, Commander of the Shanghai fleet; General Yoshinori Shirakawa, Commander-in-Chief of the Army in Shanghai; Maj.-General Kenkichi Uyeda; Consul General Kuramatsu Murai; Minister to China Mamoru...
With the Far Eastern sky flaming as red as the sunburst of the Japanese flag, President Hoover, looking worn and worried, summoned Secretaries Stimson of State, Hurley of War and Adams of the Navy for a White House Council. With them hurried General Douglas MacArthur, Chief of Staff, Admiral William Veazie Pratt, Chief of Naval Operations, and William Richards Castle Jr., Undersecretary of State. Dr. Stanley Kuhl Hornbeck, chief of the State Department's Far Eastern Division, brought along maps of China, laid them out in the Lincoln Study. The President and his advisers hunched over them, talked...