Word: brighter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scheme was dropped. Another plan is on foot, however, to force the Premier to resign on the Near Eastern question; but Poincaré is proving a difficult man to remove, principally because he is backed strongly on account of the Ruhr, and the Near East question is becoming brighter. France cannot afford to change its Government until the Ruhr question has at least been brought to the conference stage. The mock resignation of the Premier is entirely unconnected with this plot; although, no doubt, efforts were made to take advantage of the situation...
Another plank in The Monitor's platform for a better and a brighter world is the World Court...
...Joel H. Metcalf of Portland, Maine, announces the discovery of a comet by him on May 7 in the constellation Opiuchi, near the star Alpha Opiuchi. The comet was of 9th magnitude, much too faint to be seen without a telescope, and was moving slowly. It appeared round and brighter on the southwest side...
...leading feature of Brighter London, the new Hippodrome revue in London, is Paul Whiteman's American Jazz orchestra, "which succeeds " (says one critic) " in making jazz music almost melodious...
...discussion of comic personality on the musical stage can be quite adequate without due homage to Jack Hazzard, whose sentimental song parody is one of the brighter moments in the Greenwich Village Follies, or the overpowering pair of lovebirds, Savoy and Brennan, or the cowboy wit, Will Rogers of the Ziegfeld Follies...