Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year's championship polo team will reassemble tomorrow for a meeting to discuss plans for the coming season. The prospects for polo this year are unusually bright. Although still unrecognized as a minor sport, the brilliance of the team's performance last spring in winning the intercollegiate championship took University polo into the public eye to such an extent as to make probable its recognition as a minor sport...
...mentally delinquent protagonist of a murder trial now occupying national attention. A chronological table of Thaw's misdemeanors bore the title: "Highlights in the story of wealth, mental decay, vicious living, murder and insane asylums, depicting the life of Harry K. Thaw. . . The Rip Van Winkle of the Bright Light District is hitting it up again. . . His bloated face and protruding eyes mark him as he reels about the night clubs of the roaring forties. . . Some twelve girls have held for a short time the fickle favor and glittering gifts of the torturer of rabbits...
...this bright business Eden, however, some are already eyeing the realtor as a possible serpent.. Despite a strong tendency to inmany large centres, rents are discrease construction operations in tinctly sagging. Florida go-getters who come north to raise funds for the conversion of mangrove swamps into U. S. Rivieras still are entrusted with ample funds, but are meeting with increased skepticism in many quarters. Speculative apartment-builders are cultivating a less haughty "take it or leave it" attitude...
There was the matter of an international spiritualist flag, and one was adopted, white with a golden sun (the astral body) spreading bright rays (psychic emanations) after the pattern of Japan's rising sun. There was the matter of mourning, and they passed a resolution denouncing rites by the "living" for the "dead" as "egotistical". There was laying of wreaths on the grave of the Unknown Soldier, ("They live always," read Sir Conan Doyle's wreath. "There is no death; there are no dead," read that of Mrs. M. D. Cadwallader of Chicago.); and there was denunciation...
Beauty lives in speed-the rhythm of a piece of sculpture; the style of a racing thoroughbred; the bright, scrupulous cruelty of an accomplished boxer. It has been proved a thousand times that neither this speed nor the grace that is its afterglow has much to do with efficiency-that the clumsy nag can often travel fastest, the hardest hitter win-but men persist in betting on good form. This was illustrated one damp evening last spring in a Manhattan boxing ring (TIME, June...