Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Afterward, Farmer Abrell and his daughters Nancy Ruth and Rachel walked home up the road behind the church. In the light of the full moon, overflowing corncribs stood like sentinels. Rachel slipped her hand into her father's arm. After a few minutes he said, half to himself: "I reckon we've got things to be thankful...
...Holcombe bounced back into office. He was elected during a municipal crisis: the city treasury had run dry. The light company had turned off the street lights and municipal employees were not paid. Holcombe was elected on his pledge to tidy up the city books. Part of his inauguration ceremony was the throwing of a main switch to turn on the street lights again. Houston was soon...
...corrected floor space," the tenant multiplied his "useful floor space" by three sets of coefficients representing light, sunshine and view. He allowed 1.0 for a well-lit room, but "if half of its surface is in the shadow for a substantial part of the day," he scaled it down to .8. If he had a room overlooking a park or "a remarkable panorama," he charged himself 1.1, but reduced it if he could see only "a wide street or court or a stretch of grass at least 15 meters wide and without obstructions [not counting trees]." For a really super...
...Actress. The De Havilland performance is happily free of the traditional weeping and gnashing of teeth which most actors seem to relish in "mad" parts. Her Virginia is not thrashing about in darkness, but is blinded and bewildered by too much light. What gives her bewilderment a special quality is the firm, almost prim, dignity which she sustains even in the animal moments of Virginia's madness. She is excellent in the little scenes of rebellion-carefully preserved from the novel-with which Virginia tries to shake off her fate. And she can speak lines of questionable worth with...
Last week Good News was getting heartening fan mail from people who wanted to subscribe. "It is as if you light a small fire, and people come to you to get their hands warm," beamed Editor Jung. The New York Herald Tribune, scanning his first issue with friendly skepticism, gave his criticism of news more aid & comfort than perhaps it realized: "What he is saying, of course, is that news is what you make it, and that at least some American editors are feeding too much spark into the mixture . . . His point is good, even though he happens...