Word: glows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been married a year. Sidney, 25, was a musician. Doris, 21, was four months pregnant. Seeking light amusement they chose the Hollywood Pantages Theatre where a film called Imitation of Life was showing. Warmed by the picture's exaltation of mother-love, the Preislers were in a pleasant glow when it came to an end and a Universal Newsreel took its place...
...treats a trollop's injured ankle, involuntarily saves her soul. When the Inquisition hales him up as a heretic, the Jew flays the Church for being unChristian, is condemned to burn. The facts that the flames do not harm him, that he dies spontaneously in a sudden glow of light, make it obvious that the Jew is redeemed...
...away something shrieked. Then the dull glow of a headlight stabbed out of the fog. Before the terrified actors could move, straight through them and their bus plowed the special train of Realmleader Adolf Hitler, traveling at more than 100 kilometers per hour...
...beacons are pale orange globes fixed atop seven-foot poles at intersections too minor to rate a stop-&-go light. They glow continuously, drive motorists wild by giving pedestrians continuous right of way. To get past a Belisha Beacon one must drive at a crawl permitting instant stops should a pedestrian wish to cross. No other subject in years has so roused Punch, which now prints an average of two Hore-Belishing cartoons a week. Asks an irate female motorist in a recent cartoon across which smug pedestrians stroll (see cut): "Don't you loathe these beastly Belisha faces...
...letters formed at one game. A kind of alpha-soup will flow over the field from the end of the second period until the abashed Eli bandsmen step forth to show their wares, and such of Harvard's ten thousand as can see the field will feel a glow of pride as the intricate designs snap open and shut...