Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more inane, vacuous assertion than that the editing of TIME "is purely a mechanical operation requiring no literary ability." For it seems to me that more cleverness, more brains, go into the composition of a single issue of TIME than any other journal I know. It's so bright, for one thing, that I have definitely decided to cancel my subscription to "our leading humorous, satirical weekly" in its favor, coming to this decision upon reading your delectable excerpts from Harold Bell Wright's latest classic...
...salt marshes she has to admit it. Compunction for Eustace is hardly in order, and as for the girl that wants Geoffrey, ?well, she forfeits her claim by chasing Gita. all over the lawns and shrubbery of the old manor house in a roadster with murder in its bright lights...
From such a second-rate and cheap conception little of merit could survive. There were various bright lines and a fair amount of acting. People will go to see Ruth Gordon rather than The Fall...
...prospect for Edmund, son of Hugo, was not bright. First after his father's death he quarreled with his brother Hugo Hermann. As his share of his father's estate, he was given a controlling interest of the Nordstern Insurance Co. and of the Aga Automobile works. Recently he sold the former. Last week he got into serious difficulties with the latter. Short of cash, he could not pay his men's wages. He accused the banking interests of boycotting him. He offered $500,000 worth of stock to his employes, bargained with U.S. financiers for the sale...
...Side Tennis Court at Forest Hills, Long Island, provides for the game of lawn tennis, there flowered, last week, innumerable figures in white skirts and colored sweaters who arranged themselves in opposing pairs and began to move in the sunlight, forward and back, from side to side, like the bright porcelain dolls of some minute carnival, weaving a country-dance to music no one else could hear. They were the competitors in the Women's National Championship Tournament. At the end of the first day there were not so many of them; at the end of the second, fewer...