Word: lights
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Banquet. A formal luncheon at the British Foreign Office loomed finally, to divert their Spanish Majesties from too light hearted enjoyment. Though Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain and his wife received all other guests at the head of the crimson carpeted Foreign Office stairway, they descended to the quadrangle as the purr of King Alfonso's limousine was heard. His Majesty gave to Lady Chamberlain his arm. Her Majesty was escorted by lank, bemonacled Sir Austen. British Royalty, having previously entertained their Spanish Majesties at Buckingham was not present. All dined in the great room in which was signed...
These are the plays which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important. SERIOUS THE GREAT GOD BROWN-Confused but compelling history of a man who bought another's personality for gold. LULU BELLE-Heady adventures among the Negro night clubs in Manhattan. Principally Lenore Ulric. CRAIG'S WIFE-A carefully cut image of a woman whose home meant more to her than her husband. LESS SERIOUS THE LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY- Ina Claire nearing the end of her run in the witty tale of thievery among the British peerage. AT MRS. BEAM'S-The horrible...
...Army air service, with a nine-inch lens (the largest ever ground for a camera) to photograph the earth from an altitude of seven miles or so. Experts of the Eastman Kodak Company (Rochester, N. Y.) had fashioned it, providing also a film specially sensitized to record light at the infra-red (long wave, dull light) end of the spectrum, a film taking exposures nine inches square, 100 exposures to a roll. Lieut. George W. Goddard will soon have the camera mounted in the rear cockpit of his plane, at the flying post in Dayton, Ohio, with a heating apparatus...
Frigidaire mechanical refrigerators promise to sell at 2,000 daily, which warrants the expentiture of $12,000,000 on Delco-Light Co. plants at Dayton, Ohio...
...Light and Pleasant