Word: torchlighted
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Pregame fever reached the near-boiling point last night as 1500 vociferous Crimson followers all but tore down the doors of the Indoor Athletic Building in the season's first grid rally. Head-cheerleader Gerry Spear called the torchlight rally "one of the biggest in University history...
Winding up before Dillon Field House after following a marching route that led from Memorial Hall down Quincy Street, down Bow Street, westward along Mt. Auburn, and finally south along Boylston to Soldiers Field, the torchlight procession heard from members of the squad, Swede Nelson, Cleo O'Donnell, and Dick Harlow...
Three hundred years did the rest. Daylight turned to yellow torchlight or faded out altogether. Some of Captain Cocq's men vanished into the night. Visitors to Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum praised the painting to the skies for its golden glow, its mysterious, impenetrable shadows. Reportedly it was Sir Joshua Reynolds who dubbed it "Night Watch," and the name stuck...
...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...