Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lead, kindly Light, amid th' encircling gloom, Lead Thou me on; The night is dark, and I am far from home...
...bleak Ungava,* the stunted tamarack had turned burnt amber and each morning light snow frosted the tough caribou moss. For the engineers probing the biggest iron ore deposit since Minnesota's Mesabi, it was time to call it a summer. Day after day a little Norseman seaplane dipped down on to Quebec and Labrador lakes, picked up men and supplies, moved them back to the main base at Burnt Creek (pop. 190). This week the twelve drills were operating close by Burnt Creek. Next week they would be silent, and the year's work would...
Moss Hart, veteran playwright and director, has apparently been collecting gripes for several years. The theatre is richer for this warehouse. For at the Plymouth Theatre he releases these repressed emotions like so many small birds in an entertaining and often hilarious new comedy, "Light...
...Light Up The Sky" can not compare with "The Man Who Came To Dinner," on which play Hart collaborated with the great comic genius, George S. Kaufman. But the new play is like the earlier masterpiece in that both shows hit their strides when they insult people. In "Light Up The Sky," directed by Hart himself, the insults come crisp and clean and funny. If Hart can now grease up the serious portions of the show, Broadway's big brass will be in for vigorous punishment for several months to come...
Modern Tempo. In Portland, Ore., Frank A. Staeger, questioned for holding up traffic, explained to police that he had fallen asleep while waiting for the light to change...