Word: glimmers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glimmer of that great dawn...
...whole age." And, inspite of women's suffrage, the widespread influence of modernistic schools of thought, and the unhampered liberty of the rising generation, it brings up an issue which today is far from dead--the great thundercloud of 30 years ago is still anything but a pale glimmer of heat lightening on the distant horizon...
...kerosene lamps shed garish glimmer on yellow pine walls, rows of stolid Vermonters, a white-surpliced young rector. The President and his wife came down the lane, down the aisle, sat down. Few looked at them. . . . The rector spoke, modernistically, then made an appeal for money for new hymnals, since the old ones had been stolen by souvenir-seekers. The President gazed vaguely at his 80-year-old uncle, John Wilder, singing lustily in the chorus in spite of the fact that he had fiddled for dancers far into the night before. ¶While the President and Mrs. Coolidge tour...
...instruction that is given has a practical application. There is no glimmer anywhere of pure knowledge or pure science. In spite of the fact that this system scarcely seems promising of eventual success to a Westerner, it has shown fairly good results so far. The rising generation is certainly far better educated than its totally ignorant predecessors...
...royal carriage halted, the people assembled and danced their native folk dance, the kole. Delighted peasants capered and cried out that the good old times had come again. That night Alexander and Marie slept tranquilly in the royal castle, uninhabited since the exile of the Petrovich dynasty. A glimmer of rejoicing and good will had lifted the lowering cloud of the Balkans for an instant...