Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first husband decided she looked like a pig, drank himself into a toper's grave. Her second husband was a humorous, bumbling fraud who preached a little (Carry used to interrupt his sermons), occasionally printed a newspaper, claimed the "brightest legal mind in Kansas." When bibliomancy revealed to Carry that she must demolish by "hatchetation" the blind tigers of Medicine Lodge, Kiowa, Enterprise; when she was jailed for being a nuisance and refused to return home until she had destroyed the nation's supply of "hell broth," Preacher Nation divorced her. Carry, considering herself "just a bulldog...
Capable Playwright Crothers has cross-stitched her problem drama with pure comedy. Brightest moments of the play occur when Mary's rich, flibberty-gibbet friend Bridget (Spring Byington) is permitted to loosen her tactless but well-meaning tongue. "I know how you feel, Mary," she says consolingly. "It used to make me feel so badly when my husband went off and left me. I didn't feel half so sad when he died. I knew where...
...Speaker of the House 40 years ago. Representative Crisp, whose heroic efforts to balance the Federal Budget with the 1932 Revenue Act won him wide acclaim, was turned down partly on the charge that, friendly to the "Power Trust," he saddled the 3% electricity levy upon consumers. Nominee Russell, brightest of 13 brothers & sisters, proposes, as a sample of statesmanship, to collect the War Debts by severing diplomatic and commercial relations with Europe and forbidding U. S. banks to accept foreign exchange. The Crisp-Russell campaign was hot & heavy with each side trying to Klux the other with the charge...
...loans live animals to children. Museums in Cleveland and St. Louis and the Museum of Natural History in Manhattan lead in distributing their items among the schools. The Philadelphia Commercial Museum tries to interest foreign and domestic buyers of Philadelphia products.-Aida M. Doyle, U. S. National Museum, Washington. Brightest Young Man picked by the American Chemical Society this year is Dr. Oscar Knefler Rice, 29, Harvard instructor of chemistry. Like his friend Professor Linus Carl Pauling of California Institute of Technology, chosen last year as U. S. Chemistry's brightest. Dr. Rice, who also studied at Caltech...
...earliest plates, 1850 to 1852, were daguerreotypes taken under the direction of William C. Bond, the original Director of the Observatory. The process was so slow that only the brightest stars would "take", and no impression could be made of the North Star, no matter how long the exposure...