Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hamlets of Athens, Tenn., and Gilmer, West Va., got into the nation's news last week, because of two spiders. The Gilmer spider, a bright gold creature three inches in diameter, was discovered in the barn of one Arch Hefner, brother of County Clerk E. W. Hefner. Beneath this spider's dwelling nook, plainly spun in sheerest spiderweb. the Brothers Hefner said they could read the name "Smith...
Missing-between San Diego, Calif., and Phoenix, Ariz.-one Nominee for Vice President of the U. S. His name was Benjamin Gitlow. He was a Communist-six feet high, a 200-pounder with black hair, swart skin, bright black eyes, long fingers, very large feet, round shoulders. His friends suspected a Klannish plot, or strong-arm work by the American Legion, which had warned him not to visit Phoenix. William O'Brien, candidate of the Workers' (Communist) Party for Governor of Arizona, began searching small-town jails through the Southwest. Suspicion pointed to El Paso, in the western...
Courage, is a play constructed largely out of the bright sayings of children as made to a mother whose wisdom and tenderness is that of Dorothy Dix. Tom Barry wrote Courage and Janet Beecher, who has a public, played it. She was an extravagant widow with seven children; these with the exception of the youngest abused her for wasting their inheritance. The one who was loyal was rewarded when the lady next door, who had loved his pretty, boyish face, left him $500,000 when she died. Thus there was plenty dough for everybody...
Most startling of all are his battle paintings, which were published last week amid explosive praise.* During the World War he was a Lieutenant of Marines. He did not forget horrible beauties compounded of corpses spitted on barbed wire, the atrocious shine of bayonets, the bright agony of lacerated flesh...
Detective Thomas J. Tunney of the New York City police department, brother of retired Fisticuffer James Joseph Tunney,* was put on the trail of two unknown young men who had robbed an automobile of a $8,474 payroll, in the bright morning sun, near an entrance to Central Park, Manhattan. The young men were very bold about it, told the old man and the girl bookkeeper who were guarding the payroll to "Shut up." Detective Tunney, recently promoted, has a reputation of getting...