Word: lantern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Goldovsky's staging surpassed all his previous efforts. The sets, designed by Richard Rychtarik, ranged from a shipwreek on a rocky coast to the gloomy interior of a pagan cave-temple and included the effective device of magic lantern projection on a backdrop. Mr. Goldovsky made excellent use of the stage in his direction of the principals and chorus and in his use of a small but good-looking ballet, reaching the peak of his imagination in the storm scene and the finale, a would-be sacrifice of Idamantes in the temple. Leo Van Witsen's costumes were also outstanding...
...swollen orange moon, hanging low in the sky like a Chinese lantern, peered fitfully through the clammy fog. It was a raw night, and Parisians pulled their coats tightly around them as they hurried back to unheated homes. Beside me, huddled in muffler and tattered topcoat, Anatole Carvin, 61, sat on a rickety stool and hawked his roast chestnuts...
Then another guy, named Larry Bellows, joined our conference, and he's the Editor of the Jack-O-Lantern, which he claims is the best slick in the biz. 'What do you think of the Lampoon?" we ask him, trying not to show any enthusiasm...
After the group has finished with "fun," they will receive instructions from the ringleaders, namely persons on the Jack-o-Lantern, or Dartmouth...
...music of the git-fiddle thrummed through the hot Georgia night, setting nerves to throbbing in the little town of Euharlee. In the harsh, yellow light of a lantern, youthful Gordon Miller cried aloud: "I ain't had this power but about a month now. But I got the power now-I got the 'nointing!" From the box beside him came the whirring buzz of a rattlesnake. Cried Miller: "The word of God says: 'In my name . . . they shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them...