Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scene. A huge room be-frescoed in tarnished red and gold -the Great Hall of the British Foreign Office. At either side three tall windows, dull-bright with winter sunshine. Down the centre a huge table, covered with blue baize and vermilion-splashed by three official despatch boxes. Around the table a group of the most distin- guished statesmen in Europe-all clad in mourning (for England's Dowager Queen). At smaller tables other statesmen and ladies-like- wise in black. At one end of the room eight rows of seats, tiered like a grandstand, for the press. Above...
...THINGS THAT A BRIGHT BOY CAN Do-Lippincott ($1.75). Outlets for the constructive urge...
...pulleys and weights are set in motion which in turn close a window, turn on a radiator, light an electric light and open drawers. Last week in Wanamaker's store, Manhattan, an inventor stood before a group of newspaper men. Beside him was a washing machine with a bright tube affixed to its side. He raised his hand. The washing machine began to churn. He raised it again, beaming like a schoolboy. The washing machine stopped. He-V. K. Zworykin- was demonstrating a radio tube* so sensitive that the mere interruption of light-rays is enough to stop...
Prospects Bright...
Prospects for the team are extremely bright, although N. S. Clifford and Peter Baldwin, former captains at Milton and St. Paul's, respectively, are ineligible. Foremost among the candidates are three members of last year's Milton team which held the 1928 skaters to a tie. They are T. S. Kernan, goal-tender; J. L. Cunningham and E. T. Putnam, Jr., forwards. These three men were all on the Freshman eleven this fall. John Tudor, last year's St. Mark's captain, and M. N. Stanley of Browne and Nichols are other players likely to figure in this year...