Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Explosion is about two men, one a villain, one a hero, who want the same girl. The hero gets her. Like all German films, this one has bright sparks of photographic realism, lighting in this case the smoky darkness of a coal mine. But these sparks flicker and die along the grey and interminable fuse of the story which leads, at last, to a nonexplosive climax...
...gave up practicing medicine to write. A native of Hungary, he has written the light moods of Vienna into many a book; many a book that he has never written now lies in the prolific incubation of notebooks from which they hatch, briefly and pungently, like bright little birds. Author Schnitzler has never visited the U. S. He fears that the fuss and fume of literary idolaters would overwhelm...
...next best now appear in a book: The Spirit of St. Louis. Five hundred dollars, the first prize, was very appropriately awarded to child-prodigy Nathalia Crane. She expressed 14-year old enthusiasm in a thoroughly competent narrative poem, The Wings of Lead, pointing, in lines that have a bright startling thread of childish ingenuity drawn through them, to ". . . The beauty of a courage that can raise the wings of lead." Second prize went to Poet Thomas Hornsby Ferril, third to Poet Babette Deutsch. Poet W. R. Benet's Lindbergh is adroit and satisfactory. The other poems vary from...
...inaudible and exciting music, the bright statues began a fantastically deliberate ballet through the squares of the chessboard. The pawns stepped forward with a delicate terror; the rooks swept furiously, in straight lines, across the spaces, and the bishops slanted with slow dexterity between the stiff irregular maneuvers of the knights. Soon there were fewer dancers in the ballet; two sinister queens pranced among them with precise cruelty. The music to which they moved grew faint and there were long periods in which the figurines stood still and the two men stared at the board with a contemplative fury. Finally...
Score, Harvard 5, Dartmouth 3. Goals--First period; Clark (3:00), Ellison (4.30), Crosby (9:19), Everett (14:25). Second period: Bright (1:23), Manser (2:45), Everett (5:29), Third period: Crosby (5:16). Penalty: Owen and Perry (roughing), Referee, Richard Ferguson, Yale. Time, three 15-minute periods...