Word: candlelight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flood was still rising. In the Roosevelt Hotel water lapped the lobby ceiling. Above stairs 575 guests and employees were marooned without heat, food or water. Two cinema theatres were flooded to their balconies. Above the flood line, the William Penn and Pittsburgher Hotels were jammed. Guests ate by candlelight, toiled up stairs and found their rooms by flashlight, washed and shaved with bottled spring water. At the dry Nixon Theatre, Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne played Idiot's Delight by flickering lights to a half-filled house...
...Wilkes-Barre, the Record was printed by candlelight, its presses hooked to an emergency circuit. The Dansville, N. Y. Breeze failed to blow for the first time in 52 years. And at Hartford, Conn., the Courant, one of the oldest U. S. newspapers, was forced to lift its venerable skirts above the mud of the Connecticut River and skedaddle to the plant of the New Britain Herald...
...keyboard her father roused her with a tap on the shoulder with his cello bow. Because the family was too poor to buy their music, they borrowed it. And often after playing until midnight 12-year-old Marcelline sat up into the morning to copy the parts by candlelight...
...along the shadow-filled edges of the room, great banks of books may be seen, arousing in one a sense of the immensity of knowledge and of its intangibility. In this atmosphere one feels the spirit of the venerable Bede, who completed his biblical translation--despite failing eyesight--by candlelight in his cell at Jarrow. Great indeed is the library that fosters this passionate self-forgetfulness...
...Governor of Massachusetts. Records show that the Overseers had two pews at the back designed especially for their use. Over the "Great Door" at the West end was perhaps an organ gallery, evidences of which could be brought to light by careful search. The lighting was of course by candlelight, and in 1745 we find bills for "1 Doz. Tin Candlesticks" and "2 Wooden Screws for standing part of said Candlesticks...