Word: lanterns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through three pictures, the lantern-jawed comic has made calf eyes at dusky Dorothy Lamour. Their effect on the sarongstress has led her to remark: "In Typhoon I had a chimpanzee. In Zanzibar I have Hope." This time he gets her-fully clad, for a change...
...fast horse in a porcupine saddle." The boy broke away and wandered, sounded the depths of dereliction in "that gay capital of the sporting world, St. Louis." He married, became bandmaster of Mahara's Minstrel Men. His story of those seasons is a homesick, gaily colored set of lantern slides about a form of entertainment that has vanished...
Westminster Abbey, Britain's foremost receptacle of memories, had its lantern roof, the central part of the Abbey directly over the crossing of the nave and transept, burned out. Tons of debris fell on the spot where King George VI and Queen Elizabeth-and many monarchs before them-were crowned. The Henry VII Chapel was damaged, but the Unknown Warrior in his tomb and the poets in their Corner were not disturbed...
...first clear picture ever made of a molecule was last week shown on a lantern slide. Some of the ablest U.S. scientists-members of the American Philosophical Society, founded 198 years ago by Benjamin Franklin-gaped in awe, for they were seeing something never before distinctly seen...
...Princeton University recently acquired a fossil of a bat estimated to be over 60,000,000 years old." --Ohio State "Lantern...