Word: flame
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...lights in Sanders Theatre are, if possible, even worse. The stage has garish gas-lamps, which blind the eyes of those who wish to see as well as hear. Around the balcony are no less blinding electric bulbs, which produce an effect like many darting tongues of, flame; and higher up are dangerous open gas-jets. Either one's devotion to music or his eyesight must be strong to bring him to Sanders at present for this ocular punishment. Indeed, it is doubtful whether a system combining in a worse way worse methods of lighting could be devised...
...avarice, lust, and gluttony. Pride is a sin against God, for it makes man self-centered. Envy is the evil eye that looks with malignant intent upon the more successful man. Gloomy indifference is that dangerous state of mind which leads one finally to embrace sin. Lust is the flame through which every man and woman must sometime pass,--namely, the desires of the flesh...