Word: illuminatione
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"What the world needs is ... more light to illuminate what is obscure, more light to enable us to reorganize our intellectual and social and political lives. No one is wise enough to tell the source from which illumination will come. . . Thus spoke Dr. Abraham Flexner last week, making formal announcement...
"All Ages, Classes and Sexes, were full of Sensibility on this joyful Occasion" The brilliant Appearance of the Ladies from the Windows was politely noticed by the President, and gave Animation to the Scene. . . . On the Evening of the same day, the President and many others took a walk on...
Such an environment furnishes a dull foil for the brighter items in the book. R. L. Duffus. Gardner Jackson, Muriel Draper, Gilbert Seldes and a few others contribute articles that would be illuminating anywhere. But, compared to the flickering literary illumination, it is the 140 pictures that shed real light...
To be entertained by Her Excellency and His Excellency is to spend a day or an evening with two middle-aged people who seem to enjoy frolicking like chil dren, eating hearty meals, reading the papers, hotly discussing the news, playing simple card games with a candle for illumination and...
But Sunday evening was a little slow and quite flavorless for certain blithe spirits. A little group of five fortified itself with frequent passings of the bottle and then took niblicks, spades, and pickaxes and went out looking for the fraternity snow statuary. Men had put hours of devoted effort...