Search Details

Word: lantern (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: So Little Time | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Mister X, | Title: Mr. X Goes to Dartmouth | 10/25/1947 | See Source »

After the group has finished with "fun," they will receive instructions from the ringleaders, namely persons on the Jack-o-Lantern, or Dartmouth...

Author: By Mister X, | Title: Dartmouth's Air Forces Will Raid Yard at Noon | 10/24/1947 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Any Deadly Thing | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | Next