Word: torchlights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest victory was the triumph of Secretary Hull's patient, unrelenting insistence on the rule of law and the possibility of an international order. Sometimes the speeches he has made have seemed, in view of Nazi triumphs, as old-fashioned as a torchlight parade. Last week his grave words on democratic rights and duties were vindicated, not only in terms of their expression of a cause, but in the practical sense of a measure of defense that the most hard-boiled patriot could subscribe...
...Omaha convention, which coincides neatly with the Union Pacific's Golden Spike celebration, Gracie will travel over the U. P. lines in W. Averell Harriman's private car, will have a torchlight parade of 25,000 whiskerinos...
...underground" Communist convention of 1922 (Gitlow, chairman), convened in deep woods near the village of Bridgman, Mich., with night sessions by torchlight to ape Old Bolsheviks under the Tsar. Between sessions the comrades played poker, told dirty stories, went swimming, romanced with female delegates, played practical jokes on the three Russian observers from Moscow (Comintern "Reps"), threw a shoe at one who kept them awake while he wooed Comrade Rose Pastor Stokes. Every bush concealed a caucus...