Word: moonlight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Turning blade up in moonlight...
Spring was beginning to brighten over the hills of Nazareth, in Galilee. Mary watched the dandelions, listened to the birds, dreamed of the bridalhood soon to crown her betrothal to the boy Joseph. But one night a voice clove through her dreams like a sword edged with moonlight : "Hail, thou that art highly favored, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women...
Other winners of the Pictorial Review Prize have been: in 1924, Mrs. Edward A. MacDowell, widow of the late Composer MacDowell, for her musicaliterary colony in Peterborough, N. H.; in 1925, Cora Wilson Stewart, for her Moonlight Schools, and her work discouraging illiteracy; in 1926, Sara Graham Mulhall, for her work decreasing the drug traffic; in 1927, Actress Eva Le Gallienne, for her organization of the Civic Repertory Theatre in New York City...
BLONESOME IN THE MOONLIGHT--FLOWER OF LOVE. Ted Weems does a good...
...losing caste with the natives for imprisoning a god. And throughout his Indian sojourn he learned to understand that reverence for the almighty cobra. One night he was wakened by an unearthly din; his terrified dog crept under the mosquito netting with him. In a pool of moonlight a family of cats fought with a host of rats: danse macabre to the rhythm of warlike squeaks and terrific meows: Then sudden silence. A glistening cobra had glided out of the gloom. Glassy-eyed, cats and rats, man and dog, stared fascinated while the snake feasted upon a rat, upon...