Word: lantern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Disquieting Miracles. The writing about Christ is reverent, but matter-of-fact. And the style is so flat that Dr. Douglas can speak of biblical characters being "in the driver's seat." Dr. Douglas tells a good story, but he has none of the magic-lantern slide color of a Feuchtwanger or the ingenious imagination of a Robert Graves. The miracles he describes sparingly, without dramatizing and without comment; they are made to seem unsettling and disturbing events. It is not the joy of His love that the book stresses, but the disquiet and the puzzlement that word...
Reports from Hanover yesterday indicated that the Indians' main effort of the day would occur shortly before game time. The exact nature of this coup is a well-kept secret, but it is understood that it will be engineered by members of The Jack O' Lantern, Dartmouth's humor magazine, with the financial backing of the Daily Dartmouth...
...suggested that we apply for relief rations since we were not receiving pay. So I went to the one little village store and stood in line in the lantern-lighted back room, to state our case to the county relief agent. He, not a Catholic, though surprised was immediately interested and agreed that we were entitled to share in the ration issue. He made us a substantial allowance which was a lifesaver (though he did mark me down as drawing the allotment for myself "and family of nine...
...light of that dim lantern, they cut a poor figure indeed, who would now turn against the professional women who . . . kept their schools open in a time of need...
Married. James McCauley Landis, 48, lantern-jawed onetime dean of the Harvard Law School, Roosevelt brain-truster (chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission), wartime head of the Office of Civilian Defense, chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board until last December; and Dorothy Purdy Brown, 39, his ex-secretary; each for the second time; in Potomac...