Word: glowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual circuit to Cambridge the Vagabond feels the long departed spirit of youth creeping over him once more. It is the sort of thing that infuses a peculiar warmth throughout his windswept diggings high up in Memorial Tower and makes the fresh log on the hearth glow to a merry Crimson...
...their feet leaped all the Deputies except a handful, and every single party leader except Louis Marin of the extreme Right, who gave the perfect touch of drama by sitting with arms folded, glow- ering. Amid such a frenzy as even M. Briand has seldom stirred, the Great Man descended with grandeur. But would the Chamber vote as it cheered? Dopesters thought not?conceded to the Cabinet at this point only a slim chance of winning a majority...
...evening shadows grow longer The Vagabond heads earlier for the big chair by the fire where mid clouds of smoke his dreams glow like the ruddy embers on the hearth. Quiet dreams they are--peaceful reflections that are needed to absorb a day of helter skelter educational scurrying...
...Yale's good fortune to receive, but their convincing refutation of the charges which were leveled against them, the one the words of President Hibben and Coach Roper, the other a statement from Director of Athletics Bingham at Harvard, make the initial charge seem somewhat meaningless. The glow of pride that once quickened Harvard, Princeton and Yale hearts when football supremacy rested among the trio may well be transferred into vicarious satisfaction that their ethics are still the index for those who would adhere to the spirit of the amateur. Not one, but three, may raise their heads and walk...
...that damn New Jersey clay here," he marveled. There later was to be staged the feature performance-Inventor Edison working by oil lamp over his old bench, tinkering with his old tools, fabricating a replica of the first incandescent electric lamp, switching on the current, seeing the wires glow yellow, then shambling over to his old reed organ in the corner to play a few tunes. The tinkering was the climax of the celebration of "Light's Golden Jubilee." At a preceding jubilee dinner famed voices lauded the greatest Edison achievement. Owen D. Young was toastmaster. President Hoover spoke...