Word: glare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British laboratory a white-haired savant bent, over a microscope, lifted a sad, tired face to the glare of a high-powered electric lamp, sighed. He plunged his hands deep into his dressing-gown pockets, sighed again. He was Dr. Faust, despondent, wanting to die, preparing the poison. In came an uninvited guest, no conventional red-tighted devil, but Monsieur Mephistopheles, sleek, well-groomed, bemonocled, his only tail the double portion of conventional evening dress...
...bill against Jackson (a white man). A jury's stupidity meant little to the hundred gentlemen. They waited outside the jail while two of their number opened the outer gate with acetylene torches-then the inner gate, then the door of Jackson's cell. The torch glare leaped into his eyes as he started...
...RATHER ENJOYED IT?P. G. Wodehouse?Doran ($2). This is one of those books which, if read in a club car or dentist's waiting room, will cause people to glare at you, pretend to stare out the window and finally move away. Readers realizing that private mirth is a public nuisance will, unless malicious, arrange to meet Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge in some secluded spot. He is a rather large, angular young man with a napping yellow mackintosh, a piercing eye, a jumpy back collar-button and no economic roots in society save vigorous tendrils of loquacity with which...
...late Italian Renaissance sculpture to be seen in the Fogg at 11 o'clock, in that course which is so popular with vagabonds. There is Nathaniel Hawthorne to be encountered at the same time in Sever 35, if one dislikes either the sculpture of Michael Angele or the glare of the slides. At noon, however, I am pretty certain to hear the Boyiston professor discourse on David Garrck the histrionic giant of English history...
Monday. At Geneva, the Assembly of The League of Nations met beneath the glare of "movie arc lights," and chose Sir Austen Chamberlain, the British Foreign Secretary, to chairman a committee created to pass upon Germany's "credentials" and report (perfunctorily, of course) upon the eligibility of Germany to enter the League...