Word: lanterns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fare. Pausing briefly to glance at Tokyo's famed Thunder Gate, one group of 40 plunged into the Japanese capital's shopping district followed by a truck in which to carry their purchases back to the Imperial Hotel. One persistent matron spotted a decorative street lantern erected by the city in honor of the Cherry Festival. "I want that," she demanded, collaring a nearby shopkeeper. "I did not want to offend her," said the helpless Japanese, "but I could not sell her a municipal street decoration. After a moment, she gave me a look of unutterable disgust...
Except for the serum-stealing episode, Saadia has about as much plot and pace as a travelogue. Scenes follow each other like lantern slides, and the leading players recite their speeches in a sort of elocution-lesson English, apparently intended to suggest that they are speaking cultivated French. Cornel Wilde even groans in an Oxford accent. Mel Ferrer, an actor who appears to know better, seems sheepish most of the time, but Rita Gam at least manages to look like what the Hollywood wise guys have been calling her: the leg with a first name...
Almost everywhere that Crosby went, he was greeted with hostility that slowly turned into warmth. Everybody admitted that he meant well. After hearing his speech, the State Certified Public Accountants Association presented him with an electric lantern and a sign reading: "A modern Diogenes in search of an honest man." But this week, as the personal-property returns were beginning to come in, no one-not even the modern Diogenes-thought that many of them could be 100% honest...
...asset and a liability which he is most likely to deplore. Like the Hogarth engravings on his office walls, Owen's lectures are liberally sprinkled with bits of historical paraphernalia, each so interesting in itself that it is likely to detract from the whole. The "Crystal Palace" lecture, featuring lantern slides of a once famous Victorian exhibition, along with Owen's barbed asides, is an example. "I'm sorry it has developed into a kind of stunt or parlor trick. It really has a value in depicting the Victorian era," he remarked in justification...
...Composer Joseph Haydn's closest friends and sincerest admirers was a phrenology enthusiast named Carl Rosenbaum. Two nights after Haydn's funeral in 1809, Rosenbaum took a shovel, a lantern and a brace of helpers to the fresh grave. When he left, he carried Haydn's head under his arm. His purpose: to save the great man's cranium for the study and admiration of future phrenologists...