Word: arcs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Excepting only the Unknown Soldier, the last hero to lie beneath the Arc de Triomphe up to last week was Victor Hugo, 43 years ago. The emotion of Frenchmen was keyed to such a pitch that even the official tellers of the Chamber of Deputies−men chosen for no other quality than their incorruptible honor−majestically lied when the Communist Deputies voted against a bill granting $12,000 to defray the expenses of the funeral. Though every Communist who had thus voted rose and blatantly proclaimed the fact, the official count showed that the bill had passed unanimously...
...physicians, patients and therapeutic lamp manufacturers to learn that the British Medical Research Council last week decried the use of light treatments. There are two general kinds of light used in medicine-heat-producing, generated by carbon filaments; and ultraviolet ray (artificial sunlight) producing, generated by a carbon arc, by a mercury arc, or by special filaments lighting through quartz. Undoubtedly such lights have done good. This is particularly so of the ultraviolet light, used to overcome rickets by direct exposure of puny children...
Scene: The oldfashioned, high ceilinged sittingroom of a private suite in the musty and second class Princess Hotel. Through the casement windows one looks out on the Place de L'Etoile; and a portion of the Arc de Triomphe is visible. There is a notice asking guests to put out the light when leaving the room, and another stating that the laundress of the hotel is the only one admitted. The suite is that of John Pierpont Morgan. (A secretary permits reporters to enter the hall, and Mr. Morgan emerges from his bedroom. The correspondents are excited, abashed and somewhat...
...post haste to Moscow (where he found thermometers at 22 degrees below zero) and announced himself ready to sign the Litvinov protocol. After a little diplomatic jockeying the delegates assembled at the Soviet Foreign Office, and sat down around a table draped in dark magenta-not red. Three movie arc-lights sputtered, seven cameras whirred. Then came a puzzling interlude...
Winifred Lenihan, Theatre Guild actress (Joan of Arc, Major Barbara), went to court last week to defend her right to put a baby and some clothing on the balcony of her Manhattan apartment. Her landlords, the Turtle Bay Holding Co. Inc., testified: 1) that she erected the balcony in violation of her lease; 2) that the presence of the baby and clothing on the balcony annoyed the neighbors...