Word: lamped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lady with a Lamp is a theatrical biography of famed Florence Nightingale, by Reginald Berkeley. In eight scenes the piece presents six significant episodes from the good lady's life, about which these are the main facts...
...Newark, N. J.. John Casey, 17, was held in jail in default of $10 bail for ogling maidens from a lamp post. John Casey broke out of jail, went home and got $10. On his way back to jail to deposit the bail, he was arrested again, held without bail for jailbreaking...
...week for Belgian Henri Verbrugghen, also ailing. Minneapolis will find him as Philadelphia did, a diligent, painstaking musician, free from mannerisms. His thin, blond hair and light blue eyes are perfect counterparts of a self-effacing personality. But Conductor Ormandy is no longer pale. He uses a sun-ray lamp diligently, wears a becoming all-year...
Unimpressive in civilian clothes, "in battle he was totally different: combat had the effect of creating in him, as though he were a lamp, a strong light. He was, at once, capable of a passionate cursing and a low-voiced impressive tranquillity of confidence. 'Damn you, sir,' he said to an officer who came galloping up, crying out some bad news above the roar of battle, 'don't yell at me!' In such moments of intensity he often leaned forward over his horse's neck and spoke with the utmost softness...
...method; practice, not theory. No dilettante, he plunged into a project with sleeves rolled, working almost without rest for days and nights together until he made the lamp filament glow, until he made the phonograph talk. "Genius is nine-tenths perspiration," he believed...