Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large Legion detachments. Then the Legion dined President Doumergue. They toasted the late President Wilson. President Doumergue arose and said: "I drink to a great citizen and a great statesman, President Coolidge." Following a speech, he turned abruptly to Commander Savage, dropped over his head a slender cord dangling bright insignia and said: "I create you, Commander Savage, Commander of the Legion of Honor." Pandemonium...
...five. In addition there are two councils, one on education, the other on military affairs, as well as a cabinet. This new regime marks the beginning of a new future for the Nationalist cause, i. e., the unification of China under a single democratic and Nationalist government, but how bright that future is with strong Northern forces dominating it, none can predict. It marks, too, a definite break with Moscow and Bolshevism and leaves the movement apparently free of internal dissension...
...loudly past the grandstand. Then came stage coaches, one of which had been lent by Comedian Fred Stone. Then, on the loop of tracks, came a reproduction of Tom Thumb, the first of all steam engines, driven by an imitation of its inventor (Peter Cooper), dressed in breeches too bright for a hard-working engineer. After this a proud little ponyish Yorkshire engine that panted first in 1831 puffed slowly down the tracks. The General was there, an engine of the old Western & Atlantic R. R., bearing the scars of Civil War battles-battles in which it had brought powder...
...chase for happiness. Until she was 18 Judith Earle lived in a solitude broken only by the occasional comings and goings of the children next door. They have been her entire experience of life; of them she thinks or dreams; her thoughts are a tissue of memories,, remembrances of bright small faces, of intense childish devotions, of games of hide-and-seek, all woven together in a dark shining maze, blown and changing like the leaves on an autumn lawn. Then suddenly she hears that the children next door, grown up now, are coming back to live...
...creates out of her own experiences. Like Judith Earle she has come early to an artist's isolation, her past has already made the "one great circle." Then to the question "What next?" her book is the answer-dusty like an insect's wings with a curious bright bloom of sudden wisdom and golden wonder. The Author. Author Lehmann is the daughter of English R. C. Lehmann, famed oarsman, noted writer, member of the staff of Punch; she is a cousin of Owen Davis, famed U. S. playwright. Bred in Bourne End, England, she studied at Cambridge, published...