Word: lantern
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However, if you're the type of girl with enough beauty, personality, and guts to go to a dance in an inverted Japanese lantern, by all means do so; you're bound to attract attention. But then, with all that beauty, personality, and guts, you would probably attract attention anyhow...
...clandestinely in the manner of Cezanne; some are even reported to be secretly painting abstractions. If so, no samples were shown at the current exhibition. Instead, there were conscientious sketches of oil derricks, streaking red jets, power lines, blast furnaces, and a young Soviet woman standing fast with a lantern by a railroad switch...
...Late to Cry. The next attack came from a surprising source, from a man almost as respected by the Tory gentry as Salisbury himself-lantern-jawed Earl of Halifax, a staunch Conservative who very nearly became Prime Minister in 1940 instead of Winston Churchill.* Halifax thought that if the government had handled itself better before the Suez invasion, "we might have avoided the discredit of a course of action which we could not in fact carry through." Lord Salisbury, said Halifax, was a member of the government which launched the Suez invasion, "and if he was-as no doubt...
...aide, clever Roy Cohn, who, with his buddy Dave Schine, had earned the name "Junketeering Gumshoe" on his "investigating" trips abroad; Army Secretary Robert T. Stevens, the "nice guy" who had muddled his way into a political web; the shrewd, smooth-talking Senators Ev Dirksen and Karl Mundt; the lantern-jawed Tennessean Ray Jenkins, who as committee counsel peppered away at all comers; and adept, relaxed Boston Lawyer Joe Welch, attorney for the Army...
...arrest for 20 days. Then the President called his emergency Cabinet meeting. Next day it seemed clear that the session had backed him up. He signed a decree suspending for six months all activities of both the November Front and a trouble-stirring right-of-center organization called the Lantern Club. On top of that, he ordered short-term house arrest as a token rebuke to a pair of politicking army generals...