Word: torchlight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tonight a Thomas rally and two debates are on the bill, while Monday will bring out Wallaceites and Young Republicans here and at Radcliffe in election-eve torchlight parades...
...First Torchlight March...
Harvard's nearest approach to a homecoming weekend explodes tonight with a torchlight pre-Dartmouth parade and rally scheduled for 7:15 p.m. outside University Hall...
...darkness, crying: "Chiu ming! Chiu ming!" (Save life! Save life!). Pale lightning flickered and thunderclaps split the sky as men, women & children labored with spade, hoe and hands to pile even higher the earthen ramparts of the river dikes. Downriver, other watchmen, gongs in hand, their silhouettes reflected by torchlight, anxiously measured the rising flood crest. Then they, too, beat their booming summons in the night...
Among the old masterpieces from Germany now touring the U.S. (last week they were in Philadelphia) was one painting that was almost out of place, it looked so modern. It was a scene bathed in sickly torchlight, chill as a tomb, still as death-a stark and somber painting called Saint Sebastian Mourned by Saint Irene. To most gallerygoers the name under it-Georges de la Tour-meant nothing...