Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dudley Field Malone (wife of the famed Manhattan lawyer and social light) offered the allegiance of the National Woman's Party...
...Bratt, a practicing physician and an authority on social hygiene, secured the establishment of a liquor monopoly financed by private capital, empowered to dispense all alcoholic fluids except light beers, and permitted to dispose of such fluids only under a permit system based upon the status of each purchaser-the head of a family to be sold not more than a gallon of "hard liquors" a month, single women not more than a gallon a year, restaurants an amount proportionate to their proven sales of food. To the Swede who dines in restaurants there may be brought unlimited "hard liquors...
...watched him make a deep incision in the porcelain curve of tissue and bone behind the baby ear, held their breath as he worked his bright instrument deeper, upward and sideways, toward the brain- then stood frozen with horror as the palpable darkness of tragedy blinded them. Every light in the hospital had suddenly gone...
...literature in the different years when actors and producers were struggling to break with those conventions of their art which may most conveniently be seen at the present revival of "The Two Orphans," which illustrates in all except the acting and the scenes (which are not of the gas-light era) the variety of play popular in the transition from the Old Drama to the New, with its soliloquies, asides, mingling of individual and type characters dependent for effect on strong contrast, the brandy bottle, unnatural and strained diction, and false sentiment, de- fects present in diminishing quantity even...
...Observatory research has also revealed the fact that the light variations are of a most unusual nature, recalling those of the variables of the R. Coronal Borealis type, but the range in brightness is considerably smaller than is usual for such stars...