Word: sunlight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...longer have the privilege of being a liberal shadow. I have been driven out into the sunlight, not a bad thing. I have no intention to accept my dismissal from the Liberal Party. I cannot be driven from the Liberal platforms. I see on sign of my being driven from the leadership of that party in the House of Commons...
...Story.* "A Lady Leaves Home-And Goes to Work-She Discovers Mr. Fox-and Anthony Jones-She Sees the Sunlight on the Snow-She Feels the Shadow- And Hears More about Mamma- She Sets Sail-To Italy-She Sees Something of London-and Less of Jones-Witches and Devils Torment Her-She Keeps a Good Man Dangling, but-Hymen Vincit Omnia- "Time Stays...
...that everything is going wrong, someone does some such positively assinine thing that your faith is completely restored. One can do one of two things, to be dogmatic; he can keep facing the sun until it blinds him; or he can turn around and face the dark with the sunlight making a halo about his head and sell pot boilers to the natives. Well I do not contemplate chronic opthalmy...
...BLACK SUNLIGHT-Earl Rossman -Oxford University Press ($1.75). With so many bold men preparing these spring days to explore by air over the icy wastes of the Polar Sea, this journalistic account of life on the upper fringes of Alaska makes a well-timed appearance. As Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson agrees in the preface, it is a good kind of introduction to "the friendly Arctic" for folk who have never been there, since Author Rossman was a tenderfoot when he took his cinema cameras to the Eskimo village of Wainwright* and settled down for the hard winter...
...them with weighted strings; that the last suicidal migration of the Alas kan lemmings* was in 1888; that, protected against unmitigated sunshine glaring on ice and snow only by crude wooden masks or slit leather straps, the endless days are nights for many snow-blind Eskimos, days of black sunlight; that the Eskimo appetite is prodigious, measurable only by the amount of food available; that thieving is unknown among them; that at their indoor social gatherings it is customary for one and all to sit stripped to the buff; that if land is ever discovered beyond Barrow, and utilized...