Word: torchlighted
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...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...
...Johnson, commander in chief of NRA. The glory, was 400 codes signed, 20,000.000 of the country's workers covered, child labor on the way out, 2,785,000 people back at work and $3,000,000,000 added to the nation's payroll (he claimed), torchlight parades, blaring radios, speeches in the streets, everybody promising: "We Do Our Part." The U.S. had broken out of its long depression paralysis...
...Yreka, Calif., citizens of five counties "seceded" from Oregon and California, elected a Governor, held a torchlight parade, carried signs reading Our Roads Are Not Passable, Hardly Jackass-able (their grievance was that neither Oregon nor California built roads to tap their rich minerals). Conceived in the spirit of what-the-hell-is-going-on-here, and dedicated to the proposition that any publicity is good, the State of Jefferson expected no long history, but its citizens hoped to get their roads...