Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brightest ray of hope is the observation that "as marks get worse, there is a definite progression towards fewer children." It means that the Princeton man--if he has any hope of survival--faces a serious future. He must forget his clubs, his tweeds, his weekends, especially his New York (whose results, after all, don't count in the official survey) and concentrate on four years of hard study. The higher ranking the student, the greater chance for children. Let the midnight oil flow, let the pages of Aristotle turn, and the Princeton boy will grow to manhood and become...
This week the doors of Manhattan's garish Grand Central Palace open on the biggest, brightest, costliest annual U. S. coming-out party: The National Automobile Show. For their 40th debut U. S. motormakers have plenty of shiny new models to show, plenty of bright new points to talk about...
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh's clear call to a path of Americanism in a world of hatred marks him as the brightest light on the American political horizon...
...Brightest reportorial highlights: > Sir Nevile on Goring, two months after the occupation of Czecho-Slovakia: "The Field Marshal appeared a little confused at [my] personal attack on his own good faith and assured me that he had himself known nothing of the decision before it had been taken. . . . Though I was in a hurry, he insisted on showing me, with much pride, the great structural alterations which he was making in his house at Karinhall and which include a new dining room to hold an incredible number of guests and to be all marble and hung with tapestries. . . . He also...
...British in Norwich Cathedral and Germany took the villain's rap at Versailles. In 1928 British Producer Herbert Wilcox presented in Dawn a more objective edition in keeping with the forgive-&-forget spirit of Locarno. The third, made in Hollywood this year by Producer Wilcox and his brightest star, Anna Neagle (Victoria the Great, Sixty Glorious Years), was apparently designed as the appeasement or Munich, version. Released last week, it seemed likely, by grace of the times and its air of Chamberlainish understatement, to become one of the most devastating and effective propaganda pictures ever made. Actress Neagle...