Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once, it is told, she painted with her own hands all the furniture in the antechamber of Their Majesties' bedroom a bright and cheerful green. Characteristically, Wilhelm chanced to return, 48 hours before he was expected from the particular little journey which had given the Kaiserin this opportunity to please him. He returned in the night and with a sufficiently bad cold not to notice the smell of fresh paint. Flinging his clothes upon a chair in the anteroom, he donned his night garments, sat down for a moment upon another chair, slipped within the snowy Imperial sheets...
...their linen overalls at the cabin windows and their chief ordered that the nose ropes be cast off. The blunt silvery cigar tilted heavenward to an angle of 45 degrees. Then propellers roared, stern ropes were flung off, every one waved and up they shot toward Italy's bright blue sky ? Colonel Umberto Nobile, Lieutenant Riiser-Larsen, Major Scott (their English pilot), Lieutenant Mercier (their French pilot), Norsemen and Italians and one young female, Titina their mascot terrier ? the personnel of the good airship Norge as she soared above the Ciampino Airdrome to begin the first...
...married Bessie Bell, a Hadley (Mass.) girl, who had illustrated his first book of verse. A volume of stories, Master Frisky, woven about their pet collie, was well received and the blind man began to go back into the bright memories of a boyhood spent in woods and fields for the material of eight books of nature lore. Later he prepared animal stories by collecting and having his wife read him exhaustive data on the country and creature he wanted to write about. He wrote of bison, wolves, wild horses, reindeer, moose, bear, beaver. He laid his scenes in Kentucky...
...bright spot remains. The acting of "The Rotters" was superb in spite of the difficulties of a first night performance. There was not a line into which the actors, particularly Miss May Ediss, who impersonated a young person of 15 or so, and Alan Mowbray in the part of the chauffeur, did not put all the life possible...
Another departure from precedent will be the discarding of sweaters in favor of blazers, which were brought into by the University track team on its invasion of England some years ago. These blazers are to be of a bright...