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...really as fair as tradition would have her. On All Hallows' Eve the ambassador beholds the beauty stealing timidly over the moor, her path lighted by a single torch, to test the superstition that thus a maiden may catch a magical glimpse of her future husband. The torchlight falls upon the messenger. He, then, is the man. But the royal will is stern. So runs the plot of the opera. The music, more important to the success of the whole, is being composed by Joseph Deems Taylor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: For Manhattan | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...torchlight parade for Harvard Republicans equipped in the traditional manner with free supplies of red fire and gasoline torches, as well as a 20 piece band, will start its march at the Freshman gymnasium tonight at 7 o'clock. The objective of the marchers will be Convention Hall on St. Botolph street in Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REPUBLICAN HOST MARCHES TONIGHT IN DEMONSTRATION | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...torchlight parade has been for many years a night-before-election feature at the University, in the days before prohibition, almost the entire student body joined in these partisan marches, well fortified for the occasion. During these celebrations, the burghers of Cambridge-port retired discreetly to their domiciles, since the marchers were more enthusiastic than they were self-possessed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REPUBLICAN HOST MARCHES TONIGHT IN DEMONSTRATION | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...combat the apathy, so long prevalent among voters betweeen the age of 21 and 25 that The Republican Associates has been formed. Older men, brought up in the traditions of the torchlight parade when voting was almost a religious duty, still respond to the call and by casting their ballot give a democratic form of government the life blood, which it needs Government, it is said, rests on the consent of the governed. This imposes on all of us--"the governed"--an obligation which under a monarchy we would not have. Unfortunately statistics show that in some cases only about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lodge Explains Aims of New G. O. P. Political Organization in Massachusetts | 10/15/1926 | See Source »

...medicine against bad luck, would move through the jungle to kill his killers. They would move safely in a line through the jungle; no spear could wound, no knife had power to part their skin, so potent was the medicine the witch-man made for them in the shaking torchlight. He would kill the woman who writhed on the hide; he would sprinkle her blood on the heads of the warriors to a noise of drums. Drums-but was it drums that beat among the trees, roaring up the dirt path, nearer in the night? A motor-cycle leaped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Spider and Ants | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

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