Word: lanterns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Pat Harrison (Democrat) leaped to his feet, last week, and electrified his Senatorial peers. Not since the green legal shingle of young lawyer Pat swung in the breeze at Leakesville, Miss., has he spoken with more vigorous abandon. He flayed the Administration for what he called its "dark lantern diplomacy." He referred slightingly to President Coolidge as "Careful Cal." He openly derided Secretary of State Kellogg as "Nervous Nellie." All this he did because the press of the world became excited about an alleged report on the European situation in general, said to have been made by a gentleman...
...characters, however, are exceptionally well drawn, and though I never felt quite as if that gaunt, depressing "house in 82d Street" really existed, I found no difficulty in picturing to myself Mother Regan "to whom no one ever spoke"; Father "his head hung out in front like a lantern"; Frank Stella, and even Dudley. These people do exist. They are not, however, every day characters. Even Laura seems to have a human passion or desire, and one wonders how Dudley, a perfectly ordinary chap, with natural impulses and emotions, ever came to fall so deeply in love with this unresponsive...
...broadened and stimulated life at St. Paul's in his 15-year administration. His personality has had a compelling and retentive effect upon the alumni, who are now organized and have assisted in the establishment of scholarships and an endowment fund. Tall and angular of frame, sandy-haired and lantern-jawed, he has the mien of an old school schoolman, beneath which lie the combined capacities of militant churchman, practical moralist and sagacious promoter. He is a familiar figure not only on his school grounds but in the colleges and offices of his old boys, with whom he keeps...
...then that Mrs. O'Leary's cow abdicated. For rumor has whispered to the London Chronicle that the President booted the lantern. He said to the smiling Phoenix. "And how is my friend Clemenceau?" The Phoenix blanched, almost returned to ashes, remembering how the Tiger had quenched him in the exile from which he has lately risen...
...Jones is an architect by profession, a Mormon by religion, and is noted for his research in geology. His lecture tonight will be illustrated by colored lantern slides...