Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...saved their taxes; a man who was immovable amid clamor; a man who defied the mob; a man who beatified plutocracy by glorifying parsimony; a man who defied untoward events by ignoring them-him they saw as a hero and blinked his warts and scars. So in the white light that beats upon a throne the minor vices of a President sometimes at long range become his major virtues in the public...
...Miss Savidge testified before the Extraordinary Tribunal, appraising reporters scribbled: "pretty . . . dressed in black with canary colored ribbons at her throat . . . light brown hair . . . pink-and-white complexion . . . looked like a schoolgirl of sixteen . . . slight cockney accent . . . provoked laughter with some of her naive replies, but she herself did not laugh . . . thanked the usher when she handed her a glass of water and smelling salts ... sat playing with the stopper as counsel continued their questions...
Another object is the finding of evidence which will throw light on the theory that the Americas were once joined to Europe and Africa. Similar flora & fauna found in widely separated areas and on intervening islands give support to the theory. The massive dredge biting its way across the ocean floor may add geologic evidence about earth changes...
...third time in the history of the potent Astor tribe, a yacht named Nourmahal (Arabic for "Light of 'My Soul") cut the waters of New York Harbor. The new Nourmahal is the biggest and sleekest of them all-2,000 tons, 264 feet overall, twin-screw Diesel engines developing 3,200 horsepower, speed of 16 knots, all-steel hull. Skipper-owner Vincent Astor, Brother-in-law Prince Obolensky, several friends and crew of 45 had brought her from Kiel, Germany, where she had been built by the firm of Fried & Krupp from plans by Theodore E. Ferris, Manhattan naval...
...which Vincent Astor is Commodore for 1928 (TIME, Feb. 6). In many ways, Commodore Astor is the perfect yachtsman. The management of his real estate properties is not sufficiently arduous to prevent his spending days and weeks contemplating the sea from one of the three decks of the "Light of My Soul." It might indeed be impossible for the perfect yachtsman to be a mentally aggressive fur-trader and land-getter, as was Commodore Astor's famed great-grandfather, John Jacob Astor...