Word: lamplighting
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...Lilli of the lamplight...
...languages and became the great hit of World War II. German Singer Lale Andersen, whose sensuous, never-never-land tones made the record so popular, is now retired, but last week, at 59, she published her memoirs, recalling her surprise at Lilli's phenomenal success. To commemorate the lamplight girl's international appeal, the publishers threw a party aboard a Russian tourist steamer docked in Vienna on its way to Germany. "If I stayed aboard, I might finally get to Belgrade," observed Miss Andersen. "I've never been there...
...arrested moment, of the intermission between Act I and Act II of a play still being written. In general, there is no joy in the contemplation; the past seems full but futile, the future bleak but bearable. In the meantime, Hopper proposes the lean, almost unnoticed consolation of street lamplight on brownstone, of sunlight on lonely houses -and he paints the light and the loneliness as well as anyone...
WHAT a civilized city," you said, as you stood on the doorstep of your house, your rented castle, looking up and down the quiet street. The mellow lamplight and the shadow of the trees combined to form a second dusk, in which the sounds of nearing footsteps and the noise of an approaching car brought only mild curiosity, not apprehension. Yes, you are right: London is a civilized city. It has strikes, demonstrations, skinhead forays against hippies, and racial troubles with its West Indians, Africans and Pakistanis. But compared to America's big cities, it is profoundly at peace...
...optimism created by such military feats was soon dimmed by the specter of renewed starvation. In parts of Biafra's enclave two-thirds of the population suffered from malnutrition. As many as 1,000 children died in a single day; they were buried at night by lamplight in mass graves...