Word: arcs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arose at 6:30 a. m., worked on his own plane Spirit of St. Louis, at Le Bourget airport. Then he left the soil of France, circled the Eiffel Tower twice, flew low over the Arc de Triomphe, dropped a farewell message on the Place de la Concorde. It read: "Goodbye, dear Paris. Ten thousand thanks for your kindness...
...grotto Ludwig made an unmitigated curse. He thought, or pretended to think, that the lighting never exactly reproduced the marvelous tint of blue for which the grotto of Capri is famed. Lights of every sort were tried. Finally enormous arc lights were installed, and in the confined space of the grotto workmen tending them were almost roasted. A courtier protested. "Stop!" commanded King Ludwig, "I don't wish to know how the light is made, I only care to see the effect. It is not right...
...Ernest's remarkable propensity for inventing fictions that his uncle, personifying the credulous cruelty of the early 17th Century, supposes the youth to be inhabited by evil powers. The child is clapped into a dungeon, made to watch his erratically lovely mother undergo tortures, urged like Joan of Arc to confess sins of whose existence he is unaware. The triumph of youth is achieved when thousands of children who have listened to his stories with love and wonder flock to prevent his execution...
...Joan of Arc. In the Autobiography, Mark Twain tells of the difficulty an audience once had to divine the meaning of a charade acted by small Susy and small
...then the maiden paused, as if to catch a distant strain. Like an alabaster monument of Joan of Arc she seemed to stand the guardian vestal of the light that dwells in the Hallelujah-and-Amen type of evangelism. And as she spoke her thin childish voice quavered...