Word: brightening
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...brighten up your Christmas cards
Movie Star Dina Merrill has parts aplenty to occupy her working hours, three sparkling children to brighten her home life, a few well-bred lines in the Social Register, and enough money to buy Hollywood-her mother is Marjorie Post May of the $100 million Post Toasties fortune, and her husband. Stanley Rumbough, gets a big squeeze from the Colgate toothpaste tube. To top it off, an extra little bibelot has now come Deenie's way. "As a token of affection," both her father-in-law and mother-in-law, whose deaths came four months apart, left her bequests...
...begins with the somber, subdued tones of the classic Dutch artists. But his study of Rubens' paintings in Antwerp and his overwhelming need to escape the disaster of his personal life in the joy of his art together served to brighten his palette. By the end of his life, when his thoughts were concentrated almost exclusively on eluding madness by pouring himself forth in paint with all the joy he could evoke, his color reaches its peak of vibrant warmth and his canvas achieves its greatest vitality--almost more living than life itself...
...Crimson worked out in the rain yesterday, but for the first time Coach Bruce Munro permitted a few rays of cautious optimism to brighten the gloom. "You've improved a hundred-fold in the last two days." Munro told the highly touted team which until this week had looked disappointing in practice. "Now you're beginning to play soccer...
...permanent investment," he declares, "and can only sell a property with 100% consent of the investing partners." Among his plans for the Empire State: to open a luxury restaurant beneath the highly profitable ($2,000,000 a year) observation deck, plant trees around the base of the building, brighten its cavernous lobbies, and complete the air conditioning of its 1,750,000 sq. ft. of rentable space, which currently has a highly satisfactory 99% occupancy...