Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Snowflakes, light and fluffy, powdered impudently, last week, the Sovereign Principality of Monaco. A bleak sea breeze whipped in across the Casino terrace, whining up long avenues of shivering palms. At the gaming rooms warmth and pulsing chance continued to abide?for business is business?but in a private room at the Casino de Paris, nearby a group of solemn diners pushed back their chairs, lifted their glasses slowly, and drank a last deep toast to "Poor Camille...
These are the plays which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important...
Professor Theremin's apparatus can be played as a musical instrument. Nonetheless it is yet a scientific toy, just as another device, interpreting sounds as light waves and shown to the curious throughout the U. S. a few years ago, was a toy. And as the inventors of that sound-color machine toured the U. S. exposition halls, so Professor Theremin's associates plan to take him and his box on tour...
...warm slow wind fumbled at her scarf and blew it back so that it stretched and flapped along the body of the car. Then the wind tangled its tassels in the spokes of a wheel. Abruptly and terribly the dancer who had carried a thousand light banners lay in the dust of a summer road, completely still, a red scarf pulled tight around her neck...
...LIGHT BEYOND? E. Phillips Oppenheim?Little, Brown ($2). All of Author Oppenheim's 100 previous novels have possessed that first and most important element of good or even of great novels, plots which, if not airtight, will at least hold the swift and perishable liquid of a reader's excitement. His technique has not yet vanished. The Light Beyond is about three of the most important countries in the world, represented each by one or two enormously, incredibly potent individuals. By the time that a London war conference has revealed the (imaginary) iniquities of teutonic schemes for indemnity avoidance...