Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senators had heard this argument before, from impartial Senator Borah, whose vote had been for seating Mr. Smith, out of respect to Illinois, then ousting Mr. Smith to punish political simony. After Mr. Smith, the Committee listened to a long-awaited explanation by Samuel Insull, potentate of gas, light and politics in Chicago. Mr. Insull, held in contempt of the Senate last year for refusing to tell who received $40,000 of the $237,925 he passed out for the 1926 primary campaign, testified that the $40,000 had gone equally to two local campaigners in Cook County...
...century and a half ago the ladies of France, their skirts shining like inverted sprays of silver in the light of many candles, looked over their fans at a crumbling world and at gentlemen who took snuff, with elaborate and effeminate gesture, from small, silver boxes. In the rooms where they danced or laughed or whispered were chairs, tapestried in stiff silk, little frivolous statues, the infinitely suave and polished paintings of Watteau or Jean Honore Fragonard. Last week, in Manhattan, snuff boxes, chairs, desks, paintings, tapestries, busts, the wide golden branches in which tall candles had once burned brightly...
These are the plays which in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important...
...first complete and detailed study of interstate power that has ever been made by any organization, the results of which are expected to prove quite valuable to the Electrical industry of the United States. The School has published a book on the study entitled "Interstate Transmission of Electric Light and Power Companies...
...Encyclical given in the N. Y. Times of Jan. 10) that the only way in which church unity may be attained is for all to return to "the only true church of Christ" and submit to papal government and authority, one is tempted to say that in the light of past papal pronouncements it is exactly what was to be expected. One wonders, however, what those Roman Catholic students of church history who have been wont to invoke Cardinal Newman's doctrine of development in justification of the many and great changes which the centuries have made in the dogmas...