Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...murderer-com-poser rides easily through the play, with delightful overtones of comedy, like plucked strings. Kay Johnson (girl-across-the-hall) and the rest of the well-matched company are capital, particularly the lovely Grethe Ruzt-Nissen in a dance pantomime to Deems Taylor's bright, soap-bubble music. In a smoothly varied performance Woodman Thompson's staccato, expressionistic sets behave better than in Roger Bloomer. (TIME, March...
...discussion of the hen and the egg, it might be debated whether the American comic moulded American life or American life expressed itself through the comic. Actually, however, the comic has developed into an organ of social satire, an ogre which sees, as Mencken says of women, "with bright and horrible eyes" all of the weaknesses and vices of men and broadcasts this knowledge to the world. The "funnies" are terribly realistic, destructive, usually pessimistic criticisms of everything although the most popular subjects are domestic life, business and personal adventure. But the delight of ridiculing the vices of others makes...
...plot, briefly, was as follows:--Daughter returns from Chicago, with society gentlemen in tow. Papa's junior partner (Grant Mitchell) puts on bright clothes, and cuts out society gentleman, with the aid of an artificially colored past. The past becomes the present in the person of a motion-picture actress (Catherine Owen). --Audience employs opera glasses at this point. Thereupon the past and the present become inextricably mixed, the lights are turned off, and some minutes later the hero is disclosed perched upon the chandelier, while the two villians lie blood-smeared in a corner. Hero descends and assumes heroic...
...President of Princeton University, he had practically lost the sight of one of his eyes from a retinal hemorrhage. At the time when he took office in 1913, his doctors were skeptical whether he would live through a four-year term of office, because he was suffering from incipient Bright's disease. His will was greater than these diseases, which he held at bay until the end. His fatal illness first neared him in 1919 during his nationwide tour, speaking in favor of the League of Nations. After a speech at Pueblo, Col., on Sept. 25 of that year...
...pound weight.--P. F. Altman '26, P. E. Berglund '26, H. R. Bright '24, E. Burke '26, J. G. Donovan '24, Earl Evans '25, H. S. Grew '24, W. M. Snow '25, Brooks Stevens '24, P. E. Theopold...