Word: brighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this informal setback does not make the atmosphere any brighter, after the unimpressive victory over Brown. Since the B.U. match scheduled for Wednesday was postponed until next Tuesday, the Foil Composition was the week's only indication of how the team has been shaping up. Seton Hall, tomorrow afternoon, will be no pushover; that is certain
Katherine Locke, as an American girl in search of her dead brother, is convincing. Lenore Ulric plays a Moorish tart with the utmost of abandon and pidgin English. Don Morrison, the comical hotel manager, provides one of the brighter spots of the evening...
...Jones's prospects looked still brighter when the No. 3 man in the primary, ex-Governor James Noe, one time Huey Long lieutenant, came out for him. A few minutes after Noe's swing was announced, distraught Governor Long called a special session of the Legislature, hurriedly pushed through some abject vote-getting bills-repeal of the sales tax that has loaded Louisiana pockets with brass and aluminum tokens, repeal of the tax on gasoline used by boats, which has made Louisiana fishermen grind their teeth, statutory opening of the books of the State bond and tax board...
This time Lon Chancy Jr. (in his first big role) is hulking, dim-witted Lennie, who looks like a moronic Mr. Deeds, has a well-meant, heavy-handed way of stroking puppies, mice and young women into rigor mortis. Actor Burgess Meredith is George, Lennie's somewhat brighter brain. Betty Field (who meets Director Lewis Milestone's requirements of "just a simple young small-town girl with a body") is Mae, the somewhat floozied ranch wife whose neck Lennie inadvertently breaks...
...manufacturers of gleaming streamliners can see even brighter days ahead. Railroad operating revenues are on the upgrade and the railroads are again buying equipment to replace rolling stock run ragged during the depression. With 1939's financial statement yet to be issued, Edward Budd well knew last week that after a net loss of $400,937 in 1938 (1937's net profit was $3,010,000) his company was back in the black again. Much of the credit went to the streamline train division...