Word: glaringly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drawing p. 11); An unholy light filled the wide courtyard of Colorado's State Penitentiary at Canon City, the glare of floodlights and searchlights playing on Cellhouse No. 3. Two other cellhouses, the prison chapel and the messhall, were blazing ruins. In the prison "bull pen"-a sunken space at one side of the yard-some 400 convicts cowered in sullen terror, their shadows moving nightmarishly on the stone walls of the enclosure. From Cellhouse No. 3 where Danny Daniels, burglar-murderer, and five desperate comrades were inducting the worst prison revolt in Colorado's history, came sporadic...
...Sept. 12, 1814, British frigates besieged Fort McHenry, defender of Baltimore. Enraptured U. S. Citizen Francis Scott Key, a prisoner aboard a British ship, scribbled hastily: "Oh! say, can you see. . . ." Last week, citizens again saw the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, as fireworks went off and Baltimore in bunting celebrated the 115th anniversary of siege and anthem, also the 200th anniversary of Baltimore's city charter. The Navy sent to Baltimore the big-gunned battleship New York and five other ships to fire salutes. Squadrons of Army, Navy and Marine airplanes gyrated geometrically. Three...
...henlike cackling of women in the lavabo. The Gamblers (Warner). This picture is a ponderous leer at Wall Street corruption. It has that annoying air of knowingness peculiar to bad parlor realism. In extraordinarily ornate offices, ballrooms, conservatories, H. B. Warner, Lois Wilson and Jason Robards argue and glare and pull each other around. The triangle includes a banker and his son who do not want their accounts investigated, a government investigator, and the investigator's wife who was once-and still is-in love with the banker's son. People who go to the movies every night...
...glare of studio lamps that brought unseemly beads of perspiration to the delegates' potent brows they signed the two documents alphabetically according to countries. Germany (Allemague) first signed the French copy, Belgium the English. For the benefit of the sound photographers, the obliging delegates scratched extra loudly with their pens. Eight minutes later the last signature was affixed. Chairman Young spoke as follows...
Colonel Lindbergh, wishing to avoid the glare of pitiless publicity, seems to have made a mistake. Neither his office, nor the position of his noted father-in-law, nor the decent requests of the less gossipy papers have modulated the stream of photographers and reporters who harass the Morrow home. Not even the air gives him sufficient freedom to run the blockade of prying printers with success...