Word: candlelight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...toddled out to sing Constantinople. By the time she was 14, father had a dance band and she became its featured singer. After the war, securely established as England's top singer of softly swung ballads, she got a key BBC show of her own, called "Beryl by Candlelight." Even by candlelight, Beryl could see that U.S. pastures were greener...
Less vigorous recreation is to be had at the frequent House dances which have included late afternoon "Candlelight" affairs. Even less strenuous, according to the men who know, are the elbow-bending motions required to consume the bear offered "on the House" at periodic smokers...
...honor's right sat Jeannette Vermeersch Thorez, longtime mistress and now wife of France's Communist boss. The First Lady of French Communism speaks no English, and Marshall has forgotten most of his French; so hardly a syllable passed between the table companions in the flickering candlelight, while Jeannette vigorously concentrated on her dinner (Consomme Camelia, Timbale Joinville, Jambon d'York, Baltimore Laitue Nivernaise, Mousse Cyrano, Fromages, Fruits). Maurice Thorez himself was conspicuously absent...
...that time the London bureau was itself very much a part of the crisis. Its offices in Dean House were stone cold, and people in the inside rooms worked by candlelight. Not being classified "essential," the bureau could not use lights or heaters during the forbidden hours. Osborne made his assignments and told his staff to go anywhere they could find warmth for that one afternoon, anyway...
...were in the middle of a high-pressure area that extended from central Russia to northern Iceland).* It lashed coal ships to their piers and snow-blocked 75,000 coal-laden railroad cars. Britons shivered in unheated trams, trains and subways (most transport was drastically cut), squinted under nickering candlelight in unheated offices (there was a run on aspirin, a coal-tar derivative, for eyestrain headaches), came home to huddle around the kitchen stove and to hope that a threatened cut in gas would not add to their miseries. London's Central Electricity Board was typical of the general...