Word: light
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against Judge Hutcheson's ruling. After dragging in Joe Strecker's "four women," he attacked the Communist policy† which Joe had embraced as a "Trojan horse" policy for capturing the U. S. He asked the Court to read current Communist references to "revolution" not "in the light of prophecy" but as active, ominous, highly contemporary. Joe Strecker's failure to pay further Communist dues was no defense, argued Mr. Jackson. He urged Constitutional liberty of thought and speech for citizens only. Said he: "We don't have to confer upon the guest all the privileges...
Before the great bronze doors of the Vatican, Swiss Guards in medieval uniforms leaned upon their halberds. It was near dawn, and broad St. Peter's Square lay still and dark in the cool Roman night. But lights still burned in the windows of the Vatican palaces, to the right of the Square and its long Bernini colonnades. One light shone dimly. In the small second-story chamber which it illuminated, on a plain brass bed, a weary old man lay breathing heavily. A black-cowled monk, a silent doctor kept vigil...
Finest opera to be heard at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House today is Wagner opera. And the most important and painstaking of its Wagnerian productions are those of the two Nibelungen Ring cycles which attract some 8,000 listeners annually. No light-headed cafe socialites are they. Wagner's Nibelungen epic consists of four ponderous operas (Rheingold, Walkure, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung) totaling 14 hours of music & drama, requires tremendous listening endurance. But for eight years every Metropolitan Ring cycle has been sung to a sold-out house. Last week the first of this year's cycles opened...
...Culinary processes will be carried out in one electrically heated vessel of some light alloy which will serve as a saucepan for boiling water and frying pan for cooking any meat permitted. Each astronaut will be allowed one cup (but no saucer), one plate and one spoon, and a knife and fork might also be taken to be passed around from hand to hand...
...cold wave is expected to ease up by this afternoon; and, with increasing cloudiness tonight, there is a possibility of light snow in northern New England on Saturday...