Word: light
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most thrilling record: Kenneth Landfrey, a trumpeter for the Light Brigade, sounding again in 1890 the tragic charge at Balaclava...
...Literary Digest sickened under Co-Publisher Robert J. Cuddihy (who had acquired 56% of the stock), Wilfred Funk had to amuse himself with such unprofitable pastimes as compiling a dog dictionary, getting a reputation as a prankster (he tore small towels to shreds) and writing a batch of light verse. Sample...
...automotive industry that has grown mightily within the past three years and is now engaged in trying to work itself out of the recreation-vehicle class. Visualized by scooter-makers is a flourishing trade in which one-lung puddle-jumpers will be used for messenger service, light deliveries, transportation of commuters from home to railroad station and back...
...Bruce Rogers started his career, U. S. books were as dingily printed as they were apt to be turgidly written. They provided an aesthetic sensation for readers not unlike that of walking along a muddy road in the dark. Bruce Rogers' imaginative, lucid, unaffected craftsmanship let air and light into book pages. Other designers have matched his craftsmanship, but not his creativeness...
...have to break a girl in any more. . . . That's all old stuff now." Cooper's harrowing corroboration: Chicago's Cicero Danny has 500 girls under 18 on his waiting list. Cooper's conclusion: Localize the infection by restoring the old supervised red-light districts...