Word: glow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Good Fairy, Lu (Helen Hayes) describes herself as ''an unemployed glow-worm," which means that she is a cinemansion usheress out of work. She meets a rich industrialist who wants her for his mistress. Spectators are asked to believe that Lu likes the idea largely because she will be able to become the benefactress of some unknown man, anybody. From her chrysalis the big-hearted glowworm emerges as a good fairy. She picks up a telephone directory, looks up the name of a lawyer, tells her patron that he is her husband and that she will expect...
...Empire State Building once more to bid farewell to the U. S. over the radio. Celebrating (two days ahead of time) the 45th anniversary of the dedication of the Statue of Liberty, France's gift to the U. S., she waved her hand over a grid-glow tube which signalled an airplane, which dropped a flare, which operated a switch, which turned a new system of flood lights on the statue. Her broadcast farewell...
...method; practice, not theory. No dilettante, he plunged into a project with sleeves rolled, working almost without rest for days and nights together until he made the lamp filament glow, until he made the phonograph talk. "Genius is nine-tenths perspiration," he believed...
Advertisements in cheap, pornographic ("love" and "art") magazines conform to the standard of their fiction and illustrations but often fall a step lower. Pages are packed with announcements of "red hot" photographs, vigor tablets ("Glow of Life"), bust developers, sex secrets, aphrodisiacs ("Essence of Ecstasy"), contraceptives. Plentiful also are the advertisements of so-called matrimonial bureaus which will furnish lists of lonely men & women, object matrimony. Stressed in the advertisements, prominent on the lists are Wealthy Widows. Sample advertisements...
...mould and stamp Miss Twelvetrees as a definite type. She was groomed and plumed, and came out a paradox. Her contact with the grim and the real was to be a result of her figure; just as her inherent fineness and final sublimation was to be foretold by the glow of spirituality that her slightly sloe-eyes could assume...