The lamps are going out all over Europe.We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.

-Grey of Fallodon, Edward Grey, 1st Viscount
  Remark made on the eve of World War I, 3  Aug, in his room at the Foreign Office, recounted in Twenty-FiveYears (1925), vol.2, ch.18.

The whole fleet's lit up.When I say 'lit up',I mean by fairy lamps.

-Woodroofe,Thomas
  BBC radio commentary of the Spithead review, 20 May, Britain's first live outside broadcast.'Lit up' was a common euphemism for 'drunk'.