Word: sunlight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Venice also has its charm for him. "You must arrive in Venice in the right mood, and at the right time of day, if you would fully appreciate her beauty," he explained. "In the sunlight she gives herself away light a worn, haggard old woman. The time to arrive in Venice is when the moon diffuses her mellow light over the city. To enjoy Venice best, one should take a gondola and be propelled slowly through the narrow canals. Don't take one of those motor driven gondolas, reported to be coming into use. If they are not done away...
...missionary enterprise are frank to say in effect: "Better one Chinaman or Jap than fifty Islanders." And working-over the figures as a whole, missionary generals reflect that their banners wave more brightly over dusky people with a low order of indigenous culture than they do in the ancient sunlight of ancient civilizations...
...wrath were kindled. At the reopening of the Chamber of Deputies, the Premier appeared as a man possessed with the devil. The Government benches resounded with the thumps from his large, white hands. His heavy face was red with fury, his eyes flashed like a thousand daggers in the sunlight, his voice sounded like the bellow of a bull as he turned toward the Fascist Deputies and roared...
Blood Pressure. Exposure of dogs to bright sunlight results in lowering their blood pressure. The same result is sometimes observed in men.-Dr. C. I. Reed, University of Chicago...
Ponce de Leon had his filng in search of the isle of Bimini. In modern times science promises synthetic youth. But rejuvenation by the academic method seems the more popular way. Even Harvard has its "Old Dog" basking anew in the sunlight of knowledge and the shadow of an incognito. If retired bond salesmen and cotton merchants should take any wholesale notion to imitate these examples, the "Freshman Red Book" may come to look like an advertising handbook for Colgate's Shaving Cream...