Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McGillicuddy called together most of his gleaming stars, said a kind farewell, sold them to other club owners who paid into the Athletics' treasury large sums of money. With a slight fraction of this pelf he combed sandlot, high school, college, obscure league; purchased the economical services of several bright-faced lads; settled to the business of developing another winning team. Followed lean years, amusing to Connie Mack's opponents...
...literata fresh from the wheat belt, starved for silk lingerie and articulate courtship. An editor from whose gentle, sadistic lip cigarets droop two and three at a time; a svelte social secretary from Virginia who has come through three marriages with a rope scar around her neck and a bright-haired daughter, but without rings or crowsfeet; an aged German baron with a limp and many liaisons; a social-climbing physician whose heart is in interior decorating; a reportorial dandy; a gangster's girl and their "oozy" baby?are other marionettes in this smart book for which so eminent...
...that moving pictures, of moving objects, have been seen over the wires. Television consists in rapidly transmitting still pictures, in speeding up the picture at least 100 times faster than would be necessary to transmit a stationary object or picture. The picture is produced by the passing of a bright light over a screen. Up to this time, and even now, the great difficulty in broadcasting moving objects has been brought about by a lack of intense light. Until a means can be secured of producing a very intensive light, television will be hard to perfect. However, I believe that...
...conscientious Vagabond who would learn the troubles of Europe today, during all of her life and struggle, nothing could prove more lucrative than to begin this bright new day by listening to Professor Usher lecture in Widener U at 9 o'clock on the subject, "Disorders of the monetary systems of Europe." Having obtained his fill on the subject of European politics, the Vagabond may then turn his interest and attention to the politics of Chile, which has hitherto been considered but slightly in his daily walks around the Yard. The Vagabond may learn of the most recent political developments...
...Bovril III, 100-to-1 shot leading, closely pressed by Keep Cool and ten-year-old favorite Sprig. At this point Sprig lent ear to able Jockey Leader, executed a series of super-equine lunges, crossed the finish line a length ahead of Bovril III, two lengths ahead of Bright's Boy who had come up for third money...