Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Australians themselves are leaving the country areas for the towns and they want emigrants from England to go out into the back blocks and do all the hard work. "Immigrants are not treated well out there. They are spoken of as 'pommies,' the reference being to their bright cheeks, which look like pomegranates, and 'low-downers.' I would most decidedly advise a man with a family and not much money against going to Australia." Reputedly such frankness has irritated Queen-Empress Mary, and, perhaps as a result, Dame Margaret was reported in despatches to have withdrawn...
...Middle Ages, Titian painted colors that glow even today as the most perfectly bright pigments. Once, Alphonso d' Este, the Duke of Ferrara, third husband of Lucrezia Borgia, bargaining after the mysterious, Machiavellian manner of those times, for possession of two great cities with many thousand souls in fealty bound, ordered a painting of himself to be made and sent to His Holy and Imperial Majesty Charles V, as a token of goodwill that might facilitate the transfer of property. Titian made the picture about 1525, since when it has remained forever fair, though the cities...
There, a riot of cherry blooms and bright crocuses decked lawns and parkways. Elms and horse-chestnuts were "out." The advance ticket sale was fast and expensive. Dinner invitations sped the rounds, and tiaras came home from the vaults. With 100,000 Easter visitors in town, Washington prepared to prove itself a music centre that is "coming back...
...hardly wait to attend his first class. There is a considerable degree of assurance that he will do so, but unfortunately not with quite the elan which might he desired All this because two occurrences, one quite delicious and the other unfortunate to an untold degree marred he bright days just gone...
...GENERATION?By "One of Us."?Century ($1.50). If they could believe that "One of Us," aged 17, is typical, the shakers of heads at contemporary adolescence would sigh with relief. She speaks, like her elders and Dr. Holmes's woodpecker, solemnly of unimportant things. "Bright as a button" well describes her. She is as wholesome as spinach. As for her generation (unless as may be, she is utterly typical), it will be faintly disturbed by writing which for docile triteness resembles nothing so much as one of Dr. Prank Crane's high-school themes. It is to be hoped...