Word: light
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...citizens who sat in on the bill's preliminary drafting thought an income tax would be fair enough, partly because 36 of the 48 States now have such taxes either personal, corporate or both, partly because it appeared, in the light of this year's Supreme Court decisions, that Federal employes would share such a tax-and U. S. workers constitute about one-fifth of the District's population...
...Heidelberg beer hall light-hearted William Bardwell Curts, 20-year-old American student, indulged his alcoholic fancy by scrawling a humorous verse on the guest book...
...Light and mystery in combination was one critic's description of Turner's painting at the height of his career. To arrive at that combination this barbers son put himself with peasant caution and intelligence through years of discipline in the Royal Academy School, under teachers of perspective and architectural drawing, on constant sketching trips through half the terrains and atmospheres of Europe, as an illustrator for, among other things, the poems of Scott and Byron. When a building in Oxford Street burned down, he was up early to sketch the smoking ruins; when Nelson's flagship...
Even as recently as last April, Vag welcomed spring with a light-hearted allegory. It was all voices on the river. Feminine, always tinkling girlish sounds and sights. Bicycles and boats. Taut canvas that at last could relax and fold down to make open and animate cars of winter-closed vehicles. A moon no longer cold. Grass that responded with an up-surge at each footfall, lightening, replying: move--move faster, move guilty...
...Story of Vernon and Irene Castle." Unfortunately, the picture offers little else. During Vernon's early slapstick days--his barber shop scene with Lew Fields, his gaudy, striped coats that are liable to start a national trend, his old-fashioned romance with Irene Foote--the picture proceeds at a light and entertaining pace. The mood of pre-war gaiety and Sunday excursions to the beach at New Rochelle is, made delightfully real. But once Vernon and Irene are happily married, the sad curse of a story without "boy seeks girl" throws the picture into dreariness. To recapture some trace...