Word: glaringly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...explosion. A great glare of light. A series of glares, booms. Cameramen were setting off flashlights. The clubbers hesitated, swerved. "Get them," yelled a voice, "get the cameras! . . ." And then the patrolmen charged the newspaper photographers...
...statesmen in Europe-all clad in mourning (for England's Dowager Queen). At smaller tables other statesmen and ladies-like- wise in black. At one end of the room eight rows of seats, tiered like a grandstand, for the press. Above and over all, the unearthly white-green glare of mercury-vapor arcs. Conspicuous upon a red-draped raised platform, several uncouth persons in sweaters or shirt- sleeves, cranking unceasingly at cinema cameras. Such was the setting, dramatic and bizarre, amid which the famed Locarno Treaties* were signed at London last week...
...forward thrust of the hood. The steel mudguards swept over the front wheels with the curve-like ripple of a bloodhound's shoulder-thews; they began where most mudguards stop and curved insolently toward each other far out against the bumper, where the four frosted eyes of the car glare at the daylight. Inside the steel shell was a boudoir of swansdown upholstery finished in velvet of Cleopatra green, a color sleepier than the Nile at twilight, and above the door handles of antique bronze four rosewood panels were inlaid with little ivory panels showing a sedan-chair...
Then, far from the glare of such chastity, Clarence Darrow must have fumed with wrath, for the heat of his summer oratory never burned the minds of his hearers as the words of Dr. Hayes burned their hearts. Reason has had but a single throne, and her reign was brief among them. Removed from the world and its foibles the students of Southern Junior College no longer fear the comment of Browning's priest with his--"Vanity, Vanity". They are free...
Alumni of Cornell University are quite perturbed at the news that a moving picture producer is planning a film of Cornell life to be called "Far Above Cayuga's Waters" as a delicate tribute to that institution's well known song. Visioning their Alma Mater under the glare of bright lights and reflecting that the estimable old lady is not as young as she might be these alumni seem to doubt that she will appear to advantage on the stage...