Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stillness of the night a few smouldering embers lie red against the black of night. A faint smell of smoke drifts by on the summer wind. A little dog sniffs about in the ashes to salvage a hastily remembered bone and walls out as his nose strikes live coals. On the other side of the lake hidden in the timber there is a fire stabbing the sky. Before it sit a few solemn figures nodding gently to themselves thinking or casually dozing in the heat. Around them a ring of naked, glistening figures are cast against the sky in studied...
...with a Lamp-almost the only spots where the play ceases to be a parade of wax works-are at the Scutari hospital, where Actress Evans, oil lamp in hand, ministers to a rejected lover whom history so far has missed, and in London 50 years later. Here the faint recollection of her deeds by officials who have come to decorate her gives the play an ironical and momentary lift. What The Lady with a Lamp need's is more lifts. A Widow in Green- Sue (Claiborne Foster) meets Tommy Shannon (Ernest Glendenning) in an English tea shop...
...that it takes several years to pass by the earth, astronomers have been on the watch for it since 1929. If, on any one of the following nights, a brilliant display is noted, then Dr. Fisher declares that the main part of the shower will be over, and only faint signs of it will be seen next year. A special feature of the Leonids is what is known as a "fire-ball," but is in reality simply a large meteer, which frequently leaves a long and sometimes colored trail...
...Manhattan, a bottle of near-beer exploded in the face of Victor Vernon, blinded him. A year later Victor Vernon heard that his son had been arrested in a stolen car, fell to the floor in a faint. When he came to he had recovered his sight. But Victor Vernon was not happy because while he was blind he had received $75 a month from the city...
...Faint rumblings blazing the way to the political thunder of 1932 will be board in University circles today when Harvard Law School men ballot on the prohibition question and the desirability of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York for president. It is doubtful that prohibition voting at this late day will be significant in any other way than that the legal minds which framed the four questions are peculiarly weak in their knowledge of the constitutional obstacles in the way of repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment...