Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Speaking without knowledge is bad for the reputation. Please pardon another word. A very simple and not uncommon case for some reason or other was exaggerated beyond its importance. A woman appeared before an ecclesiastical court and asked it whether or not in its opinion her marriage, in the light of sworn testimony, was valid. The court replied after hearing the evidence, that in its opinion the marriage was not valid. There was neither more nor less to the case than that...
Manhattan's Bowery is a slum of light and sweetness compared to London's drab East End. Mist from the Thames and smoke, soot-laden, wrap the long Limehouse streets in a depressing pall of grey. Vice in the East End is as commonplace as elsewhere, though perhaps a bit more furtively unclean. Yet East End squalor has its attractions for aristocrats. Smart Londoners go there occasionally, as do Manhattanites to Harlem's "Black Belt." Blue-blooded Socialists like Lady Cynthia Mosely, daughter of the late Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, dabble there in soapbox oratory.* Thither, for an escape from...
...York Negro, known to his compeers as the Jamaica Kid, climbed stiffly into a prize-ring in Waterbury, Conn., and assumed an upright position before Jack Delaney, world's light heavyweight champion. He had been paid a certain sum of money to get into that ring so that Delaney could have something to hit. To be sure, the Jamaica Kid had the option to hit back if he were able, but he knew after the second round that he would not be able long. An expression of physical terror, resigned and ghastly, spread over his black face. Delaney...
...until the first quarter of the fifteenth century that we see this style more or less consistently developed, this time in England. John Dunstable, much of whose work has recently come to light, had acquired a European reputation for his songs. For some reason difficult to understand, he was, however, very soon forgotten and became an almost legendary character sometimes called the "inventor" of counterpoint, and, most curious of all, even identified once or twice as St. Duston...
...light of his ideals in the splendor of his achievements in the high perpetual cheer of his example pledge the university whose calerglary he was, our best; and our best to the country whose greatest private citizen he has been for more than a generation of years; and with this, our pledge to what he loved best and most, we leave...