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...reception line forms in the basement and crawls up a red-carpeted stairway to the main floor (see cut), where it turns left into the foyer. Vast mirrors double the crowd. Light sprays from a huge bronze lantern overhead and from countless bronze standards about the walls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Description | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...same time in Emerson J, Professor Hersey is to give an illustrated lecture entitled "A Walk in Dickens Land". It will be accompanied by lantern slides of the scenes of various events in Dickens' novels. And finally those who are interested in French literature can hear M. Andre Chevrillon speak (in French) on the great critic Taine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 2/21/1929 | See Source »

Tubmen Sirs: Shrugged cynically, Diogenes, tub-dwelling, lantern-toting tycoon. The cause: TIME'S in sinuation that a strictly residential tub ever figured in a decidedly out of character bathing episode. Glared Archimedes. "Eureka, but they have forgotten," sighed the scientific Syracusan with a gravity more than specific. H. E. PICKETT Oilman Country School, Roland Park, Baltimore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 4, 1929 | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

Rehmeyer came down and stood in the doorway, scowling out into the darkness, holding a lantern. The three fought with him, beat him down with their sticks. Finally, he lay still on his kitchen floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Hex & Hoax | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...ornate Cathedral of St. Basil, multicolored cupolas and towers bedizened with snow. Beyond lie the grim walls and towers of the Kremlin. The people have just heard the ukase. They stand in clusters, joyfully inarticulate, habitually stolid. The bizarre tints of the Cathedral glimmer like a huge lantern of faith above and beyond the awestruck host...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Slav Epic | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

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