Word: glare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charlemagne introduced Jewish Christianity into Germany," began the General with a baleful glare. "He destroyed the ancient Teutonic faith in Wodan. . . . Behind all our troubles lie Charlemagne and the Pope...
...Star Spangled Banner, splendidly patriotic though it be, but manifestly a battle song, commemorate a specific event in a specific war of 70 years ago. Surely the national anthem should deal in a broader, more national way with the ideals, loyalties and beauties of this country . . . "The rockets red glare" has no place in such an anthem...
...Glare...
...what does he find when he enters the place of examination? The room is patrolled by monitors whose occupation, when not handing out note books is to glare suspiciously; and this they do for three hours. They have little faith in the student's power to resist temptation. They put him by himself with three or four empty seats between him and his neighbor, as if he were a moral leper. I don't precisely know what happens when the monitor catches someone cheating, but probably the criminal is expelled with indignation; is hailed before a dean; sermonized and expelled...
Bright by night is the.white dome of the U. S. Capitol, set like an enormous frosted wedding cake in the glare of encircling batteries of searchlights. Brighter than ever was the dome one evening hour last week when sharp flames leaped up through the Capitol roof...