Word: beacons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their virtues and their vices and they cannot please everyone. The writers of these volumes are men of intrinsic theories and are necessarily at variance with other leaders of speculative thought. They have interpreted here too conservatively and there too liberally, according to their individual tenets. But truth, that beacon of good scholarship, is everywhere apparent. The sources are unimpeachable, the composition is exact, the theorizing is at least authoritative. These are the reasons why this history is of importance and why it must be considered of permanent value in the study of British history...
...Fascismo, "il duce" (the leader-Mus-solini) eulogized the movement thus: "As a doctrine of strength, of beauty, of discipline, of responsibility, of everything that is in opposition to all those manifestations which constitute the political life of the greater part of the world, Fascism has become a beacon of light shining in Rome, and toward which all people of the earth look, especially those who have suffered the ills we have suffered. Fascism never turns back, and I am sure that if tomorrow I should sound an alarm the whole of Italy would rally to our banners...
...Miracle. The rays of collective genius, gathered from many lands by Morris Gest and focused to a burning point of matchless beauty, have burst at last into full flame. The light of The Miracle must henceforth be the sovereign beacon for theatrical spectacle. It has bewildering splendor, apparently limitless magnificence. More important than all, it has a narrative intensity that makes it a memorable emotional experience...
...Those in favor of Mr. Wright's plan," he concluded, "are looking at the question through a microscope, in trying to solve it entirely at Harvard square. The congestion could be relieved much more easily by improving the streets from Porter to Kendall squares by way of Beacon street, and Hampshire street so that the northeast Arlington traffic would not need to go through the square at all." Mr. Wright, yesterday, declined to comment either in defense of his own plan or in criticism of Mr. Blanchard...
...Shaw, undoubtedly a predominant and scintillant Socialist littérateur of the Victorian Age, whose genius has spread to the contemporary era where it shines like a beacon in the stagnant morass of "middleclass morality," burst forth in the last of his Fabian Society lectures in a vivid address on Is Civilization Decaying...