Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...balloting was comparatively light, and the polls in Sever Hall were closed at 4 o'clock, an hour before those, in the Phillips Brooks House...
...been mad through the mountains of Cabaret with Peire Vidal, maddest jongleur of the old time. For the marriage at Cana in Galilee he has written a dance figure that is, so far as one can feel, no less lovely than any marriage ever was. In his swift, light, swirling pages are a host of echoes -of tall women and barbecues in Troy; a chant for the transmutation of metals under the larches of Paradise (Middle Ages) ; dirges for a Plantagenet, for Pan, for Nikoptis at Akr Caar; praise for Ysolt, for Evanoe, for thigh-embarked Daphne; a song...
...very exalted opinions of their ability to charm the female sex, and if you crowd them right close, they might reluctantly admit that they belong to the sheik class. As a rule they have more activity in their feet than in their heads. In fact, they are entirely too light at both ends. They exist in the South, North, East, and West, and not in the South alone...
...spring fashion shows in Paris, females were shown what to wear: evening gowns that came up to the neck in front and down to the waist* in back; sport sweaters used as jumpers; belts on jackets, ensemble coats and separate coats; colors of red banana, vert d'eau (light green), cochineal, silver grey, violine (light purplish blue...
...annual convention of the National Association of Merchant Tailors of America, assembled at Memphis, Tenn., males were told what not to wear: light tan or lemon-colored shoes, spats with tan shoes, top hats with tuxedos, bright colored hats and overcoats with any sort of evening clothes, soft collars in the city in non-summer months...