Word: light
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vermont is a state that I love. I could not look upon the peaks of Ascutney, Whittier and Mansfield without being moved in a way that no other scene could move me. It was here that I first saw the light of day; here that I received my bride. Here my dead lie buried, pillowed among the everlasting hills. I love Vermont because of her hills and valleys, her scenery and invigorating climate, but most of all, I love her because of her indomitable people. They are a race of pioneers who almost impoverished themselves for the love of others...
...retort to the Denver Smith speech, Senator Moses said: "Mr. Facing-Both-Ways has again descended from his eleven-car million-dollar special train to spread light and learning in those sections of the country which are unaccustomed to the effulgence of the Brown Derby. ... He misrepresents, distorts, bisects sentences and employs periphrastic phrases to make his points. . . . The candidate neglects to say that three of his own chief financial backers in this campaign-Messrs. Young, Brady and Ryan-are also leaders of the power trust...
...less light-hearted Democrat might have been overcome by the thought that he was sitting at the official heart of the State which gave William Jennings Bryan, the Great Commoner, to the Democracy. Nominee Smith of the Sidewalks was not overcome...
...imagination, but let me say this, putting it in as mild a way as I can, the Administration in Washington must, to some slight degree, have been in sympathy with the propaganda that was put out through this country by the joint committee [Power Lobby] of the National Electric Light Association...
...Light work to break a week of almost steady scrimmaging was the program of yesterday's football practice on Soldiers Field. The first eleven and the scrubs will clash again today in the last practice session of the week. Coach Horween having prescribed rest for his forces on Saturday...