Word: kleig
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...soldiers. Harry was a soldier in what I called the Rainbow Division, evidently founded by the color-loving Joseph during his stay with the Pharaohs. His tunic was a thing of radiant beauty if viewed from after, and his helmet shimmered in the African glare of the kleig lights. Bung was a nobody, a gray sort of individual with no color at all in his makeup. We sneered at him as a useless character, but he was to get his revenge...
...Garner posed for photographers with a shotgun, set forth with nine Senators, shot down a 120-pound four-point buck, hoisted the carcass over his shoulders, posed some more until Indiana's Senator Sherman Minton cracked: "That deer's been photographed so much it's got Kleig eyes...
...that the kleig lights are off and the thrill of the beautiful voice has vanished. Congress faces the job of carrying out such suggestions as it can find in the message on the State of the Union. . . . President Roosevelt is becoming more precise as the campaign progresses. He quoted himself, Shakespeare and the Bible correctly. The Bible and Shakespeare were quoted briefly...
...Thomas Hunt Morgan and Physicist Robert Millikan. California has more medical quacks than any state in the Union. It righteously keeps Tom Mooney in jail at San Quentin, kneels prayerfully at the feet of Sister Aimee Semple McPherson in Los Angeles. California blinks its eyes from the glare of kleig lights in hysterical Hollywood, is lulled by the mission bells of Santa Barbara. Anything can happen in fabulous California. What will happen in California on Nov. 6 is an enormous question mark placed at the end of a tense and terrible political campaign which will reach its climax on Election...
From this seclusion they went morning and afternoon as chief performers in a public spectacle. In the Senate Banking & Currency Committee room they faced the Committee before a battery of cameras (Kleig lights were installed in the elaborate chandeliers) under the surveillance of a battalion of newshawks, and completely surrounded by as many spectators as could jam into the room. In tribute to the drawing power of the late great Morgan, his namesake was kept on the stand as much as possible though he could give few details. To get an accurate account of transactions Partner Whitney had to bear...