Word: brightening
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...lunch. He attended a gathering of Indians at Wrangell's Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall, responded politely when one Chief Shakes made him a member of the Tlingit Tribe and renamed him Kitchnahshch (meaning unknown to Governor Gruening). He shipped in dozens of watercolors by WPA artists to brighten the buff walls of the big, old-fashioned governor's mansion, picked a hot desert scene with violet clouds to hang beside his lace-canopied, four-poster...
...Even in Germany, Austria, Italy and Poland, there are men like Surgeon Stoel whose courage and convictions will brighten the future of Europe's children...
Cleveland then asked him to brighten up the Great Lakes Exposition. For Cleveland, Billy dreamed up a water ballet "with Lake Erie for a stage and Canada for a backdrop." He called it the Aquacade, and in 1939 brought it east to New York's World's Fair...
...Unfortunate Custom." The bishopric of Fulham began in the days of Charles I, when a lonely chaplain in charge of the small English community at Ghent asked the Bishop of London to lighten his solitude and brighten his prestige by sending a bishop out for an occasional visit. The Bishop of London responded by creating the first Bishop of Fulham. Technically, the bishop has no diocese, but acts as administrator for North and Central Europe, which is still a suffragan bishopric of London...
...great good humor, the Republicans sat back to enjoy the row. Their own primary was not expected to unwrap any odds-on candidate. But any Democratic discord was sure to brighten their chances in the fall...