Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...watched late into the night on small station platforms through South Carolina, but President Coolidge slumbered efficiently. He woke up in Florida, breakfasted below Jacksonville, got off after lunch at Miami. There it was all top hats, shiny motors, swaying palms, "Hail to the Chief." Zooming airplanes, booming realty, bright blue water, a schooner wrecked by last year's hurricane, fluttering handkerchiefs, baskets of fruit, "Goodbye, Mayor Sewell"?and the Coolidge Special rolled...
Celebrities follow bright rainbows to pots of shining gold. The U. S. pot is most golden. Therefore choicest celebrities from overseas swarm into it, simmer, exude the essences of genius. Last week the pot seemed brimming full. Choice dumplings were...
Romans awaited the Amir in a city decked with the bright, Italian tricolor: red, white, green. Came the chuffing special from Naples, bearing the sombre banner of Afghanistan: black, but worked in silver with the arms of the Amir. Soon Amanullah, the "Peace of God," descended majestically from his salon...
Does this mean that they are unfit to occupy university posts? Not in the least. The greater part of the teaching and lecturing which they are supposed to do need not be done at all. These gentlemen who cannot give bright lectures are most of them capable of doing much better things...
...born on a farm in Genoa, N. Y. When he was 15, he was a telegraph operator in Albany. Ten years later he went without sleep for two nights to supervise the complicated departure of trains carrying Union soldiers to Cairo, Ill. While the railroads were pushing their bright tentacles across the Northwest, Marvin Hughitt was becoming assistant general manager of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, manager of the Pullman Palace Car Co., general superintendent of the Chicago & Northwestern, for whose present 10,000 miles of track he is largely responsible. In 1887 he became its president and remained...