Word: lamp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Irish coast seem ever to be lost beneath the pounding waves. Yet on this rocky, soilless shore the Man of Aran grows potatoes, with the aid of seaweed. Fish also may be found in the sea as well as the oil of the shark, used to light his crude lamp. But the sea does not always yield its bounties without a struggle, sometimes so fierce that the Man is glad to return alive, without fish without even his boat which is dashed to pieces...
...Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House resembled a miniature sitting-room one afternoon last week. The antechamber was shut off from the house by a glass partition. In it were flowers, a shaded lamp, a piano and a charming white-haired lady. Geraldine Farrar was making her debut as raconteuse for the Metropolitan broadcasts...
...office?oval like the old one but, by his order, two feet wider, two feet longer. Handsomest room in the building, it is decorated with the great Presidential Seal set in the ceiling, has indirect lighting simulating daylight. All the furniture is old except a new duralumin lamp upon the desk. The President found it all just as he had planned it. Waiting in an adjoining office ?the only one in the building that is pink instead of green?to take his dictation was Private Secretary Marguerite Le Hand, known to the whole Roosevelt family as "Missy...
...into his hotel suite which had been prepared as a visual object lesson. In the centre of the room was a small table. On the table was a red plush Catalan liberty cap and a rocking chair. Balanced on the seat of the chair was a yellow shaded table lamp. There were also two six-foot loaves of French bread on the mantelpiece and a banner with a strange device: a white skull, a key, a leaf, a woman's slipper and the letters DALI...
...were busy quelling sporadic riots in Paris, Lille and Narbonne between Socialists, Communists and Nationalists, the latter shouting "Long live Doumergue." Outside M. Herriot's hotel in Paris an irate mob, not knowing that the No. 1 Radical Socialist was out of town, shouted "Hang Herriot to a lamp post!" and "Down with the radical Socialists!" until police arrested five mobsters...