Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...relevant words from the waiter are not unwelcome. Feeding and dining are both operations that have to do with food. But feeding is just high pressure stoking of the alimentary tract with fuel. "Feeders" resent the time required to do the job, and are hoping that some bright chap will soon boil all food down to a capsule that can be taken on the run, with no time...
Proceedings. Onetime (1921-1925), Premier Georges Theunis of Belgium opened the Conference, as Chairman last week with innocuous words: "Economic dislocation of Europe . . . feverish mentality produced by the War . . . this Conference must show the way to a future bright with hope...
...band blared into Bright College Years, drowning out cries of "Yoo-hoo!" and "Look over here!" Newsgathers scurried about the decks and dock, accumulating details of the first world cruise of a floating university. Through the customs, laden with souvenirs ranging from Siamese turtles to Norwegian cheese forks, leaving their cabins cluttered with enough "junk" to fill an international museum, poured the 500-odd floating students with their variously aged traveling companions and faculty...
...time a number of consular and diplomatic officers appointed between the American republics consider their work in North or South America only as a stepping stone to a bright and merry social life in the older capitals of Europe. . . . The diplomatic butterflies might well be allowed to flit to the social centres...
...neat rows the seed of a miraculous music. Like a galaxy of flowers the notes bloomed invisibly in the close greenhouse air of the concert hall; drifted and swirled like petals under the hot chandeliers. They blew upwards in a fountain of chords; they showered down, fell in a bright silent heap. Listeners cheered...