Word: glow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hunting rifles, the methodical makers of artificial flies; it was in the people who swelled attendance at baseball games and football games, the millions of vacations that led everywhere: to picnic groves along the Missouri, where the sun coming through the cottonwood and maple gives them a coppery, luminous glow; to ranches in Wyoming, where the Sweetwater and Clark Fork curve through the rocky canyons; to the dunes of Cape Cod and the bayous of Louisiana. It was exploratory, adventurous, inventive, inquisitive, it was the acceptance of struggle and hazard-it was anything except a resigned or a bitter acceptance...
...newspaper days, the picturesque radicals and polyglot bohemians who were his friends, glow warmly in Hapgood's memory. But with the years some of his old friends developed a second nature which saddens him. Gertrude Stein, one of his first acquaintances in Europe, was once charming, filled with "a deep temperamental life-quality." Her "overweening ego" has now "made her life to my feeling ugly and her human relations and work ridiculous." Gertrude's brother Leo, once her idol, shared his disgust. Said he in a letter to Hapgood: "When Jesus said, 'Verily, verily,' the second...
...breakfast time she found the sun had painted a pale glow over the downs and the sea moved in a light that somehow was more like silver than gold. But those rolling downs! Nowhere call there by another green quite like their shade in late May. A pastel tint, they lay, deepening the bollows to a hunter emerald. So she made garden throughout the morning, busy with tulip and dahlia tubers, hollybook plants to draw the bees, and the bitter tansy. The grocery boy came by with news of a herring run down at the Gut. He sniffed. "Seems like...
...morning glow...
Federal Trade Commission's stipulation-of-the-week: "Keystone Laboratories, Inc., 491 South Third St., Memphis, trading as Memphis Mail Order House, Curio Products Company and White Line, will discontinue representing that Poreen Ointment, La Jac Lovin' Pink Cream for Dark Skins or La Jac Orange Beauty Glow Cream are skin foods or skin whiteners; that other of its products eliminate wrinkles; that La Jac Brite Skin Bleach will overnight, or in any stated time, make the skin five shades lighter or that Lucky Mojo, Good Luck Incense, Hindoo Mystic Love Perfume, Holy Oil with Live Loadstone...