Word: brighten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Daisy Canfield Danziger Moreno, 45, California oil heiress, estranged wife of Film Actor Antonio Moreno: of injuries when her automobile ran over the edge of a cliff as her companion, one René Dussac, tried to brighten the headlights in a fog, turned them out instead; on Mulholland Highway, Hollywood...
...opens the door of a room which contains a criminal lunatic who tries to cut off Melvyn Douglas's head with a carving knife. Good shot: the criminal lunatic (Brember Wells) boasting that he knows more arson than anyone else in the world while he prepares to brighten up the old dark house by setting fire to it and its inhabitants...
...gala occasion the campus is decorated as it is at no other time during the year. A large, well-sculptured statue of ice, generally of some revered son of Dartmouth, stands at a prominent spot on the campus. The fraternities also take great pains to brighten their thresholds with ice and snow sculptures, many of which are electrically illuminated, so that in general a holiday air prevails...
Died. Charles Hutchinson Gabriel, 76, hymn writer & composer; of a decline begun by his wife's death last year; in Hollywood. Associated with E. O. Excell, William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday, Sam Jones and Professor J. H. Kurzenknabe in hymn-publishing, he composed "Brighten the Corner Where You Are," "Since Jesus Came Into My Heart...
...Memorial Chapel, and Eliot House blossoming forth with its new shrubbery, are not enough. The great days are still vivid, and what is to come is yet unsure. The Vagabond greets his clan, and asks their indulgence for another day. Perhaps the spectacle of the incoming Freshmen will brighten his spirits...