Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rich brokers pored over faster runabouts or the flat snouted, roomy sea sleds. Small watermen gazed knowingly at single and two cylinder power plants for staunch waterfront wanderers. Children chattered over the countless, bright colored flat backed outboard boats, dragged parents by the coat tails begging them to come buy. The famed Fantail racing runabout which made such astounding speeds in the late autumn was a continuous curiosity. At an easy angle under her stern projected a bronze colored tail, raising her out of water, reducing hull resistance. Miss America V, world's record holding hydroplane, arrived...
...that eminence-and it is still high- Cincinnati has drooped, malnourished industrially. She has become draggled and dirty.* The bright ornaments that are her hospitals and colleges have only accentuated her drabness. The new union station is to be another ornament. The mere plans for it have already made her proud again, and boastful. With the new railroad tracks for freight and passenger terminals she plans to stitch together an up-to-date industrial dress, to become again in fact the Queen City of the West. Other U. S. cities have their soubriquets -descriptive, fanciful, hopeful. Some of them...
...consort and their daughters. So there were Afghan amazons, the kind of women who, when a soldier is wounded, "come out to cut up what remains." After a short peer, Romans delightedly readjusted their impressions. Her Majesty, Queen Badsha of Afghanistan, is a slender, lovely woman with ivory skin, bright dancing eyes, and a quick queenly smile. She wore, last week, a close, black Parisian fur coat, a chic cloche hat. She and her daughters had never before appeared unveiled in public. Brave, they not only laid aside their veils but rose to the occasion with knee-length skirts. "Viva...
...Organic heart diseases. . . . . . . . . . 126.9 128.3 Tuberculosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.9 83.8 Pneumonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70.3 89.9 Bright's disease. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.1 67.8 Cerebral Hemorrage . . . . . . . . . . . 54.3 20.4 Diarrhea and enteritis . . . . . . . . . . 15.8 20.4 Influenza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.6 25.6 Puerperal state . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.2 10.4 Homicides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.2 6.3 Typhoid Fever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.1 4.1 Whooping cough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.8 5.9 Measles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.3 6.6 Scarlet Fever . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.8 2.0 Unspecified causes . . . . . . . . . . . . 206.1 211.0 -- -- Total...
...fact that many painfully unobservant readers attributed it to famed George Eliot, whose works it resembled in certain details. In 1891, before literary England had properly heard of George Bernard Shaw, before Oscar Wilde was a bad name, before ten final absurd years had burned up in a bright sputter for the end of a smoldering century, Thomas Hardy had written Tess of the D'Urbervilles, the most famous of all his fine, austere, tempestuous novels. Four years later he had written Jude the Obscure, the saddest, the last...