Word: lamped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true eulogy of Washington is this mighty Nation. . . . What other great, purely human .institution, devised in the era of the stagecoach and the candle, has so marvelously grown and survived into this epoch of the steam engine, the airplane, the incandescent lamp, the wireless telephone and the battleship? . . . We should strive to identify the qualities in him that made our revolution a success and our Nation great. Those were the qualities that marked Washington out for immortality . . . Lexington . . . Concord . . . Bunker Hill . . . Valley Forge . . . Yorktown...
...lights in Tom's living room are lowered. A small table for two has been set intimately, with a small rosy lamp and a bottle of bubbly. Never has the siren been more seductive than now, when she tries to woo her husband out of his dark mood, a mood which is running to ironic quotations. "Waiter," he orders his butler, "waiter, another small bottle, please. Regan, dost thou know who made thee...
...stationary eyepiece over its centre. But the image thus presented was blurred, since it was seen in motion as it passed the light. Scientists Loomis & Harvey fixed the light so that it would flash on and off, each Hash coinciding with the reappearance of the cell beneath the lamp. Thus a series of distinct, clear pictures was presented-8,000 of them to the minute, so many that the eye could not detect the periods of darkness...
...Lady with a Lamp is reputedly based on the brief Nightingale biography in cadaverous Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians. Between the play and the Strachey piece, however, there are noticeable differences in characterization and fact. To Playwright Berkeley, Nurse Nightingale, reverently and somewhat palely acted by Edith Evans, is a sort of Maid of Orleans. He acknowledges "securing aid and authorization of Miss Nightingale's relatives." To Mr. Strachey, however, Florence Nightingale was more like the kind of person Carrie Nation might have turned out to be had she been interested in caring for the sick instead...
...best scenes in The Lady with a Lamp-almost the only spots where the play ceases to be a parade of wax works-are at the Scutari hospital, where Actress Evans, oil lamp in hand, ministers to a rejected lover whom history so far has missed, and in London 50 years later. Here the faint recollection of her deeds by officials who have come to decorate her gives the play an ironical and momentary lift. What The Lady with a Lamp need's is more lifts. A Widow in Green- Sue (Claiborne Foster) meets Tommy Shannon (Ernest Glendenning...