Word: candlelight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Every Night." Shortly after we began eating, an orderly called General Li to the phone. He talked for a moment in a low voice and returned to the table. In the candlelight the lines on his youthful face-he is 44 - had sagged. He stared at his rice bowl, then explained quietly that he had just had word of a radio message from his friend General Huang. "The trap is closing," said Li. "He must have help soon. We must reach him in two days...
...Valpey's football team, getting its first workout of the week, ground to a halt when the power failure plunged the cage into darkness at five o'clock. The girls were more inventive; they played bridge by candlelight...
...Voss finally discovered the first ones. By now, scholars have identified about 15 of La Tour's paintings. Last week visitors, clustered in one of the galleries of the Frick, could study for themselves the special marks of his great talent-the smooth, stylized surfaces, gleaming in ghostly candlelight; the quiet faces reflecting stolid patience; a slender hand, translucent to the flame...
Eight new members of Radcliffe's Iota Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa were initiated at last night's candlelight ceremony in Byerly Hall, in the Annex Yard...
Meanwhile, sales for the candlelight supper on Friday are continuing apace, with over 100 of the 200 ducats sold. The supper, according to publicity chief A. Werner Pleus '51, will feature tablecloths and thick slices of beef, as well as the candlelight...