Word: glaringly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preservative paint is the usual lot of structural steel, a dull red which is promptly censored by an overcoating of black. But from now on, the structural steel for all skyscrapers whose frames are by the Hay Foundry & Iron Works of New York will shine yellow in the glare of the sun. The first of them will be the Louis Adler Building, now arising on Seventh Avenue at 37th St., Manhattan...
...Englewood, N. J., neighbor, potent Board Chairman Seward Prosser of the Bankers' Trust Co., could not believe his ears when he heard the announcement by radio. ¶ In Mexico City, Miss Anne Spencer Morrow, 22, five-feet-five, brunette, blue-eyed, literary, bashfully quiet, shrank from the glare of being her country's Hero's fiancee. Her father let the world guess, without assistance, at the time and place of the wedding. Industrious press ferrets brought up Miss Morrow's poems. Her last, in Scribner's, concluded: Still, like a singing lark, I find Rapture...
...America and shunted the First Deficiency Appropriation bill, carrying the Senate's $24,000,000 prohibition enforcement amendment, into a basement room at the Capitol. There, behind locked doors, five Senators and three Representatives went to wrestle mightily over the season's major Dry issue, far from the public glare...
Only a month ago came the tenth anniversary of the day once announced as the marker of the end of war, but so soon to become the starting-line for post-war platitudes. Manifold the causes must be that could blow the clear flame of idealism to the smoky glare of hatred. South American border rows are a common-place, but not for long have the contestants stood up so eagerly to cleave the air with passes at each other. It is true that the little brethen of the South felt none of the reverberations of the World War except...
...fact-and no fault of aviation-that many a little boy of 1928 wants, some day. to be an engineer (the pilot of a steam locomotive). Still great is the appeal of the whistle in the night, the glare of the boiler fire, the singing rails...