Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 14, 1. A.M. For New England, slightly warmer, fair weather during the day, southeast to southwest winds, lower barometer, followed on Wednesday night or Thursday morning by light snow...
...WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 12, 1. A. M. For New England, light snow, followed by clearing weather, northwest to southwest winds, rising barometer, slight change in temperature...
Lilienthal, '83, and Bangs, '84, will probably enter for the light-weight wrestling at the winter meeting...
...edition of his recent four-column article would suffer severe abridgment. That article is overflowing with poetic sentiments; the rich metaphors of Tom Moore are nowhere in comparison with this brilliant effusion of verbal pyrotechnics. Think, for instance, of a "top gallery, separated from the world below by a light cloud of blue muslin, from whence floated the music of Wheeler and Wilson's" - sewing machine, we read it first, but it turned out to be a band, - presumably a full brass band. The "elite" and "chaperones," we are told, were all present, and, almost in the same breath...
...beam of sunshine "bursting" from so many fair faces. Whether the explosion hurt anyone or not, the News dosen't say. The temperature of the hall, the radiant faces of our fair sympathizers, the brilliancy of New Haven gas, the continuous maze impelled simply by the light music, and the bad words uttered when some unfortunate wight stumbled over a lady's train, - not one of these interesting and thrilling accompaniments of the ball go unmentioned...