Word: sunlight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More than 700 people fainted in the broiling sun, but swarms of sightseers climbed the monument's steps to gaze reverently at the bas-reliefs of Voortrekker heroes and other figures of South African history. At noon, a shaft of sunlight fell through an opening in the monument's dome upon the words "Ons Vir Jou Suid Afrika" (We for You South Africa), engraved on an altar 130 feet below. The crowd watched in solemn silence while organs played; at that moment, throughout the land, bells pealed from every town and village belfry...
...take the wheel during a moonlight drive. And the factory worker who tries to relax while squinting tearfully into the ocean glare may, as a result, have an accident at the work bench more than a week later. The effects of overexposure to bright sunlight last longer than most people realize...
Last week, Dr. Peckham reported on follow-up studies made during two summers with lifeguards at Atlantic City. What he found convinced him that overexposure of the eyes to bright sunlight creates an alarming problem...
...wife has hired a young woman (Margaret Lockwood) as a companion, and the ghost, apparently seeing a psychic likeness, takes her over body and soul. Miss Lockwood heaves and sobs in demonic possession for most of the rest of the film, until she is saved for the world of sunlight and for that Nice Young Man by the intervention of another and even less convincing apparition...
...impressionist friends, Vincent Van Gogh was a pathetic puzzle. Renoir, Monet and Pissarro all painted nature ripe and smiling in iridescent veils of sunlight, but the touchy, red-bearded Dutchman couldn't manage that; he seemed to be after something different...