Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...BACK SEAT?G. B. Stern? Knopf ($2.00). Robert Carruthers occupied it?he was the little pig who stayed at home making ornamental shelves while Leonora, his wife, one of the brightest stars of the British stage, informed interviewers how sincerely she yearned for the simple, homey existence her public would never really allow her. But when she got her chance at true domesticity?and her daughter, Faith, as the result of Robert's mild engineering, made a howling success of a part supposedly written for Leonora?she found the back seat a little too hard for her temperament and returned...
Robert C. Benchley, literary buffoon of the brightest motley, is deserting the third row, aisle (critic's seat) for the opposite side of the footlights. It became public property last week that Life's theatrical commentator has accepted an engagement with the forthcoming Music Box Revue...
...Benchley has long been known as the brightest contributor on the staff of Life. He is the author of a number of books of humor, of which Love Conquers All is the latest and best. He is a Harvard graduate, class...
...Story.* Guy Plummer was the brightest boy in Junction City; Bee Chew, the prettiest and most interesting girl. Guy's father was a minister and poor, while Lawyer Chew lived in the only " mansion " in town and preferred Robert Ingersoll to Henry Ward Beecher?but that didn't make any difference to Guy and Bee. They quoted Browning and Henley to each other and thought the biggest thing in life must be to grow old together, like the picture in the advertising calendar of the stately old man and the silver-haired lady, holding hands and smiling...
...been discounted by the astronomers of Mount Wilson Observatory. There has been no change in the spectrum of the star, and it is believed that the Paris astronomer may have confused it with its near neighbor, Mira Ceti, which is a true variable star and is now at its brightest...