Word: beacon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...domain which he helped to build and over which he rules. There a network of dark lines traces 21,764 mi. of airway. Scattered white pins mark the nation's 2,034 airports. Lighted emergency landing fields stand out as 382 green pins while 53 blue pins designate radio beacons, 1,567 red pins, rotating beacon lights, 386 nickel pins, acetylene blinkers...
...headphones in the cabin, serves as his flying office and from which every detail of airway construction, maintenance, lighting and radio weather-reporting can be observed first hand. Only touch of elegance in the cabin is a brilliant maroon felt pillow with the seal of the Aeronautics Branch (a beacon over which flies the original Wright Brothers' plane) on one side; on the other the name of Clarence M. Young in orange letters. The pillow was the gift and particular pride of Col. Young's pilot, plump John Cable. In one or another of the Department's planes the Colonel...
...street corners in red suits ringing cow bells. On envelopes are little green stamps emblazoned with the cross of the crusades. An old woman in the South End stares out a dirty window into a dirty street at a delivery truck painted red and green. Young girls in Beacon Hill loop up to a candle smiling winsomely through lace curtains. Mail men stoop beneath vast leather bags full of hopeful verse in bad metre and worn out welcomes. Shop girls run over their heels and smile in tried silence. Fat dowagers in alligator pumps talk over counters with irascible volubility...
...final factor in awarding the several-million-dollar-contract to young Architect Gleave was that his design alone was earthquake proof: an 800-ft.-long cruciform ramp of solid masonry from the top of which a blood-red cross will be projected into the sky as an air beacon...
...orders, to be conventional is to be dull, to be unconventional is to be damned. Out of the fears of the dull and the struggles of the damned springs Fashion, full-armed, and Gossip, first instruments of human culture and advancement. That these necessities have found a spokesman on Beacon Hill is a subject for congratulation. Such literature flowers from the good sub-soil of snobbery, without which no society could exist, a pale flower, but unquestionably an orchid...