Word: torchlight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...personal physician, hovered close; he would not leave, he said, unless or until the returns moved substantially in F.D.R.'s favor. (He left just before 11 p.m.) At 11:15 came the dull thump of a bass drum and the shrill tootle of fifes, and the usual torchlight parade of neighbors milled up the circular driveway...
...Hyde Park. In high good humor, grinning at the battery of photographers, he noted several children in the branches of one of the trees, and recalled how he had climbed the very same tree as a child to escape discipline. From that tree, he said, he saw his first torchlight parade from the village, at the time of Cleveland's election in 1892. "I got out of bed to come downstairs in an old-fashioned nightshirt-wrapped in a big buffalo robe...
...shone on her arms and breast. An unexpected little quality of voluptuousness was revealed by Lily in undress. The thighs seemed wider and harp-shaped, the cups of the bust, tiny, separate and high." Oleander Watterson, Lily's maid, was an ex-convict, six feet tall, with a torchlight personality, headlight eyes, "neither Negro nor half-breed," possessing "a fierce magnificence of Indian-colored flesh, high cheekbones that had been heavily rouged and then powdered over, big, bold, red dened mouth." She wore a transparent dress around the house, knew all the scandal there was to know...
...Evil in the town as personified by a crooked (-onely-don't-worrry-dear-reader-he-reforms-in-the-end-) politician, and his even crackeder cronies, one triangle (eternal), one father-and-son squabble, numerous fights (gun, fist, and umbrella), and, to add that necessary punch line, a gala torchlight parade to the local hoosegow...
...cheeked, twinkling Biologist Bissonnette is one of the world's leading authorities on photoperiodicity - the study of the effect of light on animals' and plants' seasonal cycles. The earliest application of this science, so far as he knows, was by Spanish peasants who in 1602 used torchlight to stimulate hens' egg-laying. Poultrymen used to believe that the reason artificial light improved hens' production was that it made them eat and exercise more. But Professor Bissonnette showed that the light itself stimulates laying...