Word: beaconed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...earlier years of its existence, the Sodality regarded the serenading of Boston belles as one of its handsomest traditions. Lantern-lit expeditions of romance-bent musicians would start from Porter's Tavern in North Cambridge, and comb the land from Brattle Street and Brookline to Jamaica Plain and Beacon Hill...
...such action from Beacon Hill would set a political precedent, but what is even more important, it would at last give Cambridge a man down at City Hall with enough power and prestige to issue okays for the newly painted shingles that must now stay inside its stores...
...Fire Extinguisher? President Harry Truman's words, committing the U.S. to see the fight against Communism through to the bitter end, heartened antiCommunists. Greece's Premier Themistocles Sophoulis called the speech "a beacon of hope." But many Europeans, who had expected the U.S. to draw a geographic line against Communist expansion and back it with a military guarantee, were disappointed and wondered what could happen next. Wrote the London Times: "If the American Congress and people, already excited and alarmed, do not respond promptly and in full to [this] appeal for practical measures, more harm than good...
...Boston on Christmas Eve, 1939. More specifically, she was on exclusive Beacon Hill, where candles were flickering, where carolers were singing and where, by tradition, old families held open house. She met a wealthy, socially prominent young man named Richard Sears Jr. He thought she was wonderful. They were married two years later, while she was in an Eddie Dowling show in New York...
...Moscow, famed Cineproducer Sergei Eisenstein took to the short waves to charge Hollywood with preaching "hatred of humanity and the Soviet Union, that great beacon of peace." Soliloquized Eisenstein reproachfully: "Can one remain an artist and not be impelled to arrest the hand which is sowing death...