Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crime of plump, complacent, witty, dynamic Editor Leon Daudet is "defaming the police." He has defamed almost every high official in France at one time or another in L'Action Francaise, to the huge delight of Parisians; but "defaming the police" serves to cover the merry multitude of his bright sins. No one really wants to bright put such a booming, spacious fellow as M. Daudet in jail; but appearances must be preserved, and he has already had two years of grace...
...Swedish locomotive, trim and bright, puffed forth from the Turkish Capital at Angora last week, and drew a salon car in which rode the great Ismet Pasha swiftly along 240 miles of new roadbed, linking Angora with the hinterland of Asiatic Turkey...
...Beebe, submarine poet, also captured the demoiselle, a dainty fishlet which gradually changes its afternoon dress of bright yellow ? and blue to an evening dress of charcoal grey...
...dancing and delicate wit inhabit Author Wassermann's mediaeval romancing to a far greater extent than his sombre psychological studies of modern Germany (Gold, Faber, Wedlock). Translator Otto P. Shinnerer puts no strings across the bright lawn of prose on which Author Wassermann's imagination whirls in a dexterous Bergamask...
...powerful simplicity. But one sermon stands by itself, making the rambling accounts of Creation and the Fall and the Flood seem almost conversational. It is a funeral sermon, and one of the really great poems of U. S. literature. It tells how God, one morning, had a tall, bright angel cry out like a clap of thunder...