Word: light
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stand for light and love and Peace In its song to the world...
...shouting of the crowds and while flags were flying in the southern breeze, the Plaintiff and his loyal aides ambitiously distributed the match booklets to the spirited tempo of patriotic airs. . . . Gradually these staunch voters of Tallapoosa County so assembled had occasion to open their booklets of matches to light up their cheroots, and as each did so, the booklet was immediately and indignantly closed and concealed from the eyes of the womenfolk or younger persons thereabouts...
White Banners (Warner Bros.) continues the campaign of moral uplift which its author, Lloyd Cassel Douglas, started in Magnificent Obsession and Green Light. Central character of Green Light was a bubbly jocular minister who, when the minor characters in the story became upset, explained to them that humanity was a kind of automotive parade best governed by the traffic signals of unselfishness. In White Banners, the minister is replaced by a warm-hearted maid-of-all-work named Hannah (Fay Bainter). Otherwise, the formula is much the same. When Hannah straggles into the household of a high-school science teacher...
Though long be the night, With the dawn comes the light...
...Light practices during the remainder of the week failed to bring the Chace stroked outfit into top form, while the Eli boat stationed at Gayle's Ferry was pacing through its trials in it foest form of the season. By week's end both eights had found their stride...