Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lawyer Joseph A. Padway, barrel-shaped and bull-voiced, had taken up the morning with his arguments for the defense. The presence of Padway, A.F.L.'s brightest legal light, gave John much inward satisfaction. The A.F.L. hierarchy might hate and fear Lewis for the way he had assaulted them in the past, but they had to come to his support on an issue like this. Padway was the big opening gun in the battery of defense...
Loftily Kesselring defended his part in the business. "Reprisals and the shooting of civilians as a last resort," he said, smiling in the harsh light of the courtroom's naked bulbs, "are nowhere prohibited by international law." (In a general sense, this statement was true, although it did not necessarily apply to the case...
...teach five classes a week at the peers' and peeresses' schools-two grim and chilly buildings. At the girls' school, says Mrs. Vining, "You have to shout against the noise from the other classes and the people passing in the corridors. There is no electric light [and no heat]. . . . The floors, of rough wood, are grimy with dust from soldiers' feet over the years. The classrooms are like box stalls...
Chronically poverty-stricken Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wanted to be married, decided to compose a light little Singspiel to pay the bills, titled it Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio). To make it popular, he set it in a harem. He filled it with "Turkish style" music and costumes which were fashionable in 18th Century Europe, gave the heroine his future wife's name Constanze. After the Vienna premiere in 1782, Emperor Joseph II said: "Too fine for our ears, my dear Mozart-and much too many notes." Despite the imperial reservation, Die Entf...
Harvard's Higginson Professor of History, one of the country's leading chroniclers of its social and cultural growth, has east 75 pages of light on a fascinating phase of American striving: the etiquette book. Maintaining that "nothing that concerns human beings can fail to concern the historian," Mr. Schlesiner's Introduction dignifies the quest of good manners as "one aspect of the common man's struggle to achieve a larger degree of human dignity." Statements like these lead the reader to expect a thorough study of manners literature, its relation to and effect on American mores and ideals. What...