Word: torchlit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pulitzer Prize for 1931, I'd Rather Be Right is a buttoned, if glistening, foil. The Kaufman-Ryskind play took a swift jab at the heart of the body politician, and the late George Gershwin's "Wintergreen for President" summed up the whole oompah spirit of torchlit political nonsense in a single musical phrase. The new play pokes playfully at a dozen current problems, much in the manner of the semi-annual Gridiron satires staged by the Washington correspondents. The music, with no particular motif to follow, becomes largely a utilitarian accompaniment to fit the rhyme...
...arrested and held for eight months in a fortress while he wrote Mein Kampf. In Munich, on this Nazi-hallowed ground, pink-cheeked Hitler Youths saluted Count Ciano and pink-cheeked Hitler Maidens offered him posies. Then with all Munich in carnival mood there was rollicking in the torchlit streets. Initialed Entente-Count Ciano, just before taking off from Munich for Rome, joined Baron von Neurath in handing out the text of an entente which they had initialed for Italy and Germany to signalize agreement last week on these points...
...sinister. The machinery which he built for Bryan he deliberately used later to carry himself toward the White House where he felt, doubtless sincerely, his "new journalism" could best serve The People. The measures he introduced in Congress (1903-07) were truly liberal in conception, but despite his lavish torchlit campaigns for Mayor, Governor and President, his motives were never sufficiently trusted by The People ("Who Think"). Perhaps, eloquent though he became on the stump, he was too mental for them, too synthetic. It was a simpler, earthier politician than T. R. who drove Hearst out of politics-Al Smith...
Through the torchlit streets of Providence, R. I. one night last week parading G. O. Partisans carried placards with such slogans, mocking Theodore Francis Green, 65, lawyer, banker, scholar, Fellow of Brown University and Democratic nominee for Governor. When Mr. Green was picked to oppose Governor Norman Stanley Case for reelection, Republicans softly whispered that he was effeminate. Democrat Green's retort took the form of a full-page advertisement in the rotogravure section of the dignified Providence Journal. In a dozen different poses he was depicted as the "All-round Man"-lawyer, statesman, soldier, traveler, tennis player, public...
...TIME, Oct. 18, 1926). As Wartime wage umpire of the National Labor Board, President Suzzallo had sponsored the eight-hour day for lumbermen, a policy irksome to timber-owning Governor Hartley. Technical cause for the rift was a disagreement about educational policy, but President Suzzallo left Washington in a torchlit blaze of personal glory. Last week he was given as distinguished an educational post as the nation affords: the presidency of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, in which he succeeded Henry Smith Pritchett, 73, co-founder and president of the Foundation since its inception 25 years...