Word: glared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this dazzling ivory glare...
...both him and his roommate completely under her thumb. Unfortunately for his relations with his redoubtable keeper the editor is far from the paragon of neatness, and at any given time his bedroom looks much like the Biltmore ballroom on New Years morning. Withered as he is by the glare of Mrs. G. . . . when she finds things strewn about the floor, he can never remember to do anything effective about...
...piece of oratory he has delivered as President, a speech publicly proclaiming a turning point in U. S. history. For 45 minutes he spoke, sometimes allowing his voice to swell in a sonorous diapason, sometimes letting it sink low as he leaned forward confidentially over the desk. In the glare of klieg lights which made the large mole over his left eye stand out in pitiless relief, he turned the pages of his manuscript with shaking fingers. Time & again his visible audience burst into applause, cheers and halloos as if at a political rally. When they did so, without looking...
...Saul Dushman exhibited a tiny mercury lamp, two inches long and thinner than a lead pencil, which emits a 200-candlepower glare. Its light results from vaporization of a pellet of mercury imbedded in a capillary tube. The little lamp may find use in composing rooms and photographic studios, may replace electric arcs in cinema projectors...
...Last week as August gave way to September the time had come for the gala event of the farm year?the State Fair. In twelve great agricultural states the exciting aroma of hot dogs filled the noses, the brave piping of calliopes filled the ears and the bright glare of rockets filled the eyes of some 3,000,000 U. S. country folk celebrating Fair Week. September would not see the end of this rural revelry, for the South, busy with its tobacco and cotton, cannot frolic much before frost...