Word: floodlight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show. The assassination had occurred at 1:30 p. m. and punctually at 11 p. m. the same night seven young Iron Guards who had confessed to the murder of Little Hercules were brought to the spot where the assassination had taken place, forced to reenact it under police floodlight and then executed, in situ. The executioners were seven Rumanian soldiers, each of whom drew a pistol and killed one of the seven Iron Guards. The bodies slumped to the pavement, gushing blood and sprawled grotesquely next to those of two Iron Guards who had committed suicide, to lie there...
...envoy to their Union. He is in fact the first to make even a quick inspection tour of an important section of Red Industry. Typical of 99% of the Moscow diplomatic corps are the British who carry on with a dimly-lit Embassy front hall in which concealed lamps floodlight full-length oil paintings of King George V & Queen Mary in the most elaborate of royal robes. Nobody in the British Embassy sees any more than he can help of the "bloody Bolshies" and their walks are mostly taken in the Embassy's high-walled garden. This week Ambassador...
...poultry dealer, a graduate of the University of Kentucky, she has always been interested in photography but was limited to a small Brownie, until last Christmas when a friend gave her an inexpensive No. 616 Hawkeye camera with an F6.3 lens and portrait attachment. With the aid of some floodlight bulbs, she started making portraits of her friends at night. One Wallace M. Kelly, a neighboring artist, helped her with the composition. Margaret O'Daniel is the 3-year-old daughter of another neighbor...
Secretly the deputy sheriffs of Contra Costa County rigged up a loudspeaker in the drawer of a bureau in Anacleto's cell with direct telephone communication to the next room. A bright floodlight was turned on Anacleto to keep him from sleeping. Then Deputy Ted Christ, who speaks Spanish, went to work in the next room...
...National League, under its new president, Ford Frick. last December decided to try an experiment it had been anxiously considering for three years. This summer, in Cincinnati and possibly Chicago and St. Louis, major-league teams will play night games by floodlight for the first time. Harried by financial difficulties, the Boston Braves threatened to turn their park into a dog racetrack. The plan was abandoned. Instead President Emil Fuchs persuaded the New York Yankees to give him Babe Ruth...