Word: glaringly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Clevelanders last week learned why the hawk fed leisurely outside the Van Sweringen windows. Atop the 54-story tower building is a huge beacon. Birds migrating at night are blinded by the glare, dash against the building, drop broken-bodied to the balcony projection...
Lack of change, probably more than any single factor, has spoiled Marion Talley for Manhattan's most musical. When she made her debut at the Metropolitan in 1926, it was in the full glare of blazing publicity. Critics realized that the fuss was none of her making, that presses all over the U. S. were starved at the time for a good human interest story. They were for the most part kind. She had a pleasant voice. She might some day become an artist. And for three years they waited...
...Briand manfully braving the pinkish white glare of the flood lights made a speech which was later translated into English. He returned compliments to Secretary Kellogg and paid homage to first signator Gustav Stresemann, Foreign Minister of Germany...
...Hollywood amphitheatre was to marry a Viola Strom. "To a Nordic Princess" was written for her. After its rendition, Australian Percy and Nordic Viola would take each other respectively for man and wife, with orchestra for altar, vast audience for attendant friends and in the glare of light...
...place, but snakes, lizards and-in the oozy lakes-crocodiles are noxiously at home. Branded upon memory may remain a fight between two mammoth crocodiles, each some 20 feet long-savage devils, mercilessly tearing, raking, lunging, thrashing the ooze with loud slaps of mighty tails. The eyes seem to glare with sheer hate, remorseless, soulless, infernal. The defeated crocodile, mangled and dead, is not eaten until it has partially decayed and thus become more succulent to the victor. Pigmies. Suspicious of the white man, Congo Pigmies often set thin, poisoned stakes point upward in his path. He, knowing or fearing...