Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miramon Lluagor, who was Manuel's Seneschal of Gontaron, retires to Vraidex, his mountainy magic-seat, and is temporarily rid of his talkative wife, Gisele, by wishing her into the middle of the next week. (It is during Miramon's manipulation of the bright bees of Toupan that Koschei almost falls...
...Hampshire to their arrival at a Vermont council ground in the autumn. In particular, it follows the wooing of pantherlike young Panna, the chief's daughter, by Milanko, the tumbler, and Yurka, the half-giorgio* fiddler; and reflects the changing of gypsy ways from mooching along in bright-painted horse-vans to flitting over the country in shiny automobiles. Whether or not some of the language is highflown-and whether or not gypsies ever caught chickens by dragging past a farmyard a fishhook baited with corn-the sharp flavor of true folklore is strong upon such sayings as these...
...rewarded; he coursed off after the Anti-Saloon League, in the person of its counsel, Wayne B. Wheeler, on the pretext of getting evidence of Wet moneys expended for Candidate Vare. Last week he was not astonished to find that this new quarry had a mate the gentle, bright-eyed Women's Christian Temperance Union. Swerving, Senator Reed followed this fresh and fragrant spoor to extraordinary revelations...
...bountiful good fellowship between the crusaders and university students in the lands they visit. "In the walled garden of an old stone house in Normandy" many of the most faithful will gather in August to fraternize intensively and bleach all the sins of their respective diplomats with the bright rays of well systematized mutual confidence...
...worked as a waiter in the Hotel Brunswick and, when the management discharged him, the patrons whom he had pleased helped him to start a place of his own. It is said that he knew by a customer's bearing what he would like to eat?for a bright eye, crepes Suzette; for a laggard step, Vol au Vent de Volaille à la Reine. Bolshevism, prohibition, induced him to retire. "I will not submit," he said, "to having food thrown at my patrons." He left a large estate, including a new restaurant and apartment hotel on Park...