Word: glow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hopeful opinion that even the most reprehensible wretch is kin to God. His example is Jean Valjean, a strapping fellow, brutalized by 19 years in the chains of convict labor for the theft of a loaf of bread. The kindness of an old bishop causes the spark to glow in Valjean, so that after his release, he devotes himself to saintly deeds. He becomes mayor of a small French town, befriends a stricken harlot, adopts her child, Cosette. Later he retires to Paris to live quietly with his ward. Because of a trivial offense heedlessly committed after his release, this...
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...audiences glow in deep moral satisfaction over the ruddy Carmen or ponderous Scarpia who they hear is really a fishmonger's child from Oklahoma...
...Middle Ages, Titian painted colors that glow even today as the most perfectly bright pigments. Once, Alphonso d' Este, the Duke of Ferrara, third husband of Lucrezia Borgia, bargaining after the mysterious, Machiavellian manner of those times, for possession of two great cities with many thousand souls in fealty bound, ordered a painting of himself to be made and sent to His Holy and Imperial Majesty Charles V, as a token of goodwill that might facilitate the transfer of property. Titian made the picture about 1525, since when it has remained forever fair, though the cities...
Then, later in the day, if the indomitable desire for culture still persist, the Vagabond can hasten back from Soldiers Field when the sun begins to glow comfortably in the late afternoon. If he has time, let him stop a minute on the Anderson Bridge to watch the oars dip and flash as an eight pulls up the Charles. He cannot linger long, however, for Mr. Forbes Watson, editor of "The Arts", will speak at 4.30 o'clock in the Lecture Room of the Old Fogg Art Museum on "Civilized Contemporary Painting from Cozanne to Picasso...