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Word: brightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bright and early one morning la grippe took a firm hold on him, kept him in bed for several days. The malady was accompanied by a swelling of his right leg, which he was forbidden to move; but his general condition improved rapidly, mainly owing to his Herculean constitution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Premier III | 12/22/1924 | See Source »

Pierre de Ronsard, "Prince of Poets," bright, particular star of the Pléiade,* who that is not French remembers him? How he hymned the Bourbon monarchs in the voluptuous vernacular of the French Renaissance; how he invented gorgeous adjectives and ingenious flowers of imagery to describe the monarchs' wives and female friends; how he (mythically) quarreled with Rabelais over a point of style; how Queen Bess of England sent him presents where he dwelt in his fine chateau, fattening on the income from rich abbeys and priories; how Mary, the little prisoner queen of Scotland, addressed him from her dungeon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Torpid, Dismal | 12/22/1924 | See Source »

...little figure, spry as a stoat, in grey flannel trousers, white sleeveless sweater, bobbed this way and that, swung his Bright arm flail-fashion, tried to make his legs into springs. It was the Prince of Wales. He was trying for the amateur squash racquets championship of England. His opponent was one T. Bevan of the Guards. The scene was the Bath Club, London. How was he doing, this agile prince? His service was clever, his backhand singularly strong. Now and then he said something aloud in a voice at once fierce and hearty. "Well played." He said that over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wales | 12/22/1924 | See Source »

...present and future of Albania are, indeed, bright as an inexhaustible spring of controversy, and it is unlikely that this busy little state will allow the Balkans, to relapse from the front page. Other states may fall in line with the humdrum task of self-government and industrial development, but Albania will always stand by the ancient and honored ideal of self-determination by the sword. The new-fangled ideas of democracy and representative government may vitiate the national character of neighboring countries, but Albania is resolved to uphold to the last man the Balkan ideal of confusion, poverty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BALKAN PUDDING | 12/20/1924 | See Source »

...Keezer, Harvard square merchant, took exceptions to the article in yesterday's CRIMSON outlining his philosophy of life and depicting the struggles of his early days. He came into the CRIMSON office bright and early yesterday morning with fire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Max Keezer, Optimist, Demands Retraction--Far From Dissatisfied With Life While Business Is Booming | 12/18/1924 | See Source »

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