Word: glow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soul in a boat, but his more mundane friends, drag him off on their worldly course. The Easter afternoon blurs and shimmers in a quintessential furor of sheer delight. The Vagabond realizes that Nirvana is near. The day wears away; the sun is setting in a receptive, motherly, western glow; in a culminative ecstasy of bliss, the Vagabond sits on the edge of a pool in the Common, watching the dying orb, and dabbling in the placid water with the tips of his toes; he is a child again, and quite, quite happy...
Composer Sowerby's Prairie, like Carl Sandburg's poem which inspired it, aptly describes the hush which enwraps the flat midwestern farmlands, the far-away burr of threshing machines, the climactic glow of a sudden sunset and the grey, momentous calm which follows. A few carping critics were inclined to credit Poet Sandburg with most of the inspiration but the sharpness of Sowerby's musical perceptions, developed now into a unanimously praised skill at orchestration, showed itself long before Chicago's red-headed organist had heard of Poet Sandburg. He was six years old, living...
...from a high altitude about 300 mi. away. The brilliance lasted eight or ten seconds, then broke into two clouds- one brilliant blue, the other yellow and flame-colored. The clouds soon seemed to merge. The luminescence faded after a half-hour. Groundlings at Albuquerque noted the gaseous glow for half an hour. Colorado Springs saw it for three times as long. The few groundlings who saw the meteor itself called its color blue-white...
...reason at all except that you need something warm and stimulating." Milk is an efficacious adjunct to alcoholic liquors because, more than any other food, it inhibits intoxication by retarding the accumulation of alcohol in the blood. By itself, alcohol is not warming; it produces an illusory glow by increasing the amount of blood in the skin, but this glow causes excess radiation of body heat, reduces the temperature. Hot drinks help promote sleep; those containing alcohol may do so if stimulation is absent or has subsided. The hypnotic action of beer is due in part to the lupulin...
...done anything wrong but because it was safer for him. He was a man of 47 with a wife and children. He and Policeman Weigand sat on a bench in front of the coal pile. From time to time Gobel banged open his fire door and a bloody glow would spread over the coal. He would cover the white spots on the fire box. with an eye on the water gauge, then he would come back to the bench and talk...