Word: redly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reflected practically straight down. Since turbulent winds tumble tiny snow crystals in all directions, thus dispersing the light, the brightest pillars are seen only on calm nights. A pillar is always the same color as that of the light at its base: the pillars above neon lights are red. The height of the halo is proportional to the strength of the light source. Canadian weathermen have "measured" pillars 1,100 feet tall...
Last week Alec Templeton Time (NBC-Red) was the up-and-comer of the new 1939 radio shows. In two months it had won some 6,000,000 listeners. Blind, brilliant Alec Templeton's charm is no secret; his musical lampoons spare nobody, from his keyboard come chuckles for all. Once he put on an accent like Music Master Walter Damrosch's, piano-lectured theme by theme on Three Little Fishies. He embroiders five-note themes tossed up by audiences until they sound like Wagner. His Bach Goes to Town, a swing classic, is now part...
...Malley is a fruity, beet-red, Lancashire-born Irishman who was introduced to the U. S. four years ago with Templeton and Jack Hylton's orchestra. His specialty: English North Country songs, the phlegmatic Lancashire monologues that have made Gracie Fields Britain's top entertainer. From Pat many U. S. radio listeners have learned for the first time of stubborn old Sam Small, who held up the Battle of Waterloo until the Duke of Wellington, no less, soft-soaped him into picking up his musket. They know, too. of young Albert Ramsbottom who got et by a lion...
...gets no salary) and pay for such extras as the dentist. She is proud of her improvements to the school. When she arrived, it had a big black stove in the centre. She got rid of that, made the room more habitable. Now it has white curtains with red ribbons at the windows, a new floor, a globe of the world hanging from the ceiling, a map stand, a phonograph (temporarily out of order) with a few records, a water cooler, a mirror, soap and paper towels. Until this fall it had no electric lights, but Miss Campbell raised enough...
Stretching for six blocks along Chicago's West Side are the seven dirty red brick buildings and the one clean yellow brick building of "Misery Harbor" (Cook County Hospital)-largest general hospital in the world. Through the gates of the hospital pour 135,000 charity patients every year, for everything from athlete's foot treatment to blood transfusions.* During the last four years Cook County Hospital has been a battleground for two warring medical factions. Last week a compromise ended the fight...