Word: glassing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...crossed Worth, he watched the lamplighter gingerly poke his torch, like a wizard's wand, up inside the glass globe toward the jet of gas. The bloom of light enveloped Skaggs...
...luminosity only a matter of gaslight spreading into every dining room and parlor and respectable street. There were also the laughably large new panes of plate glass that amounted to architectural magician's tricks, erasing the old boundary between indoors and out. And the unearthly rays of light beaming from burning lime that transformed any actor on a stage into a shining angelic or demonic figure; the magic-lantern shows of Halley's comet; the new, exceptionally yellow yellow paints and bright red printer's inks, all mixed up by chemists in laboratories; the telegraph wires that sparked and blushed...
...unidentified assailant pushed a student through a Quincy House first-story glass window early Wednesday morning, sending the victim to the hospital...
...awaits you at a boutique hotel. Your room will look as if it were put together by Balinese decorators after a daylong brainstorm with brand managers from the Body Shop. The door opens onto a space of dark wood, coarse textures and handmade soaps. Here's the bathroom with glass walls; there's the bed of Frette linen, beside it an unglazed platter bearing (but of course) a single mangosteen. Yoga mats and aromatherapy oils proliferate in drawers like the Gideon Bibles of yore. And there are miserly arrangements of foliage. Fine hotels used to put out great urns...
Yale shattered the protective glass and even a goalie mask, but in the end, it was the Bulldogs’ hearts that were broken. The Harvard men’s hockey team defeated Yale (11-17-3), 2-1, Saturday night in a physical Game 2 at the Bright Hockey Center to win its best-of-three ECAC first-round series with a game to spare. Though the Crimson (14-15-2) was robbed on several quality scoring opportunities by Bulldogs backup netminder Matt Modelski, the Harvard defense and senior goaltender Justin Tobe shut down the Yale offense, allowing just...