Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second crew blossomed out in sky-blue mufflers yesterday, rivalling the bright red neckwear of the first eight...
Prospects in the running events, on the strength of this and last year's performances, are particularly bright. With Captain Tibbetts, Watters Haggerty, and Lutfman in the long runs, Kane and O'Neil, last year's Freshman captain, in the middle distance events, and Miller and Purns in the sprints, the University ought to be able to make a strong bid for the premier running honors of the east. The all around success of the team seems to rest largely with the field men who have not been so well tested yet and are thus more of an unknown Quantity...
Next, when Chief Pilot Carl Ben Eielson stepped into the Alaskan's cockpit and signaled "Contact!" for a test flight, the craft bucked and plunged, struggled amain with roaring cylinders, but could not rise from the clinging snowfield. Overhead there was perfect flying weather, bright and clear. Eielson ripped the throttle wide open. The Alaskan roared forward, kicking up a small blizzard, and at last crept clear and aloft?only, when she landed after a brisk spin, to crash into a buried wire fence at the end of the field, smashing her propeller, landing gear and fuselage. No Pole flight...
...done by Adolf Bolm, danced and danced, wriggled and writhed, beat his breast, accomplished nothing, became in the end just the pitiful ghost of the brave puppet he was. Florence Rudolph was the ballerina; Giuseppe Bonfiglio, the dashing Moor who won her; Serge Sondeikine, the author of the dazzling bright sets; Stravinsky, the genius in back of it all, Stravinsky at his best-sure, reckless, rhythmical, vivid...
...tactics allegedly American?but what shrewd Frenchwoman is ignorant of these? Some of the tennis scenes are a bit stodgy and childish, coming from a temperamental cosmopolite, but a big trente-et-quarante act redeems them. In fine, there is a thick sprinkling of evidence that within a certain bright bandeau is a head whose clarity has not been greatly affected by occasional, more or less comprehensible, enlargements...