Word: candlelight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...candlelight supper without the candles, a glee club concert, cocktail parties, and various athletic events are also scheduled in what should be the top freshman social event of the year...
...secretly, Florence kept notebooks. She chided herself in them for trying "to shine in society." She imagined herself married to Milnes, but her daydreams of marriage were of the works of philanthropy and welfare they might perform together. By candlelight, she pored over government hospital reports. "My mind is absorbed," she wrote, "with ... the sufferings of man; it besets me behind and before ... All the people I see are eaten up with care or poverty or disease...
Larry Green entertained last year's informal dance, after a "sunset supper" in the Union. The traditional candlelight affair was not held because of fire laws...
...motel telephone rang; the consulate was on the line advising the Earl to get married. A little later, minus collar & tie, the Earl hurried Mildred and two hastily aroused witnesses into the home of Justice of the Peace Delbert Bresemann. The J.P. performed what he proudly described as a "candlelight office wedding...
Boots & Saddle. Earlier generations of U.S. children had been exposed to this sort of thing, of course. More than one house was burned to the ground in the '90s by small boys reading Nick Carter in the attic by candlelight. Buffalo Bill and his Wild West show set hordes of amateur buckaroos to lassoing gate posts and hapless cats. As early as 1907, the Youth's Companion promised boys who sent in a new subscription and $1.15 a "No. 3 striking bag . . . new pear shape, very popular, particularly adapted for quick work . . ." Girls could earn "artistic wood-burning...