Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bright, cheerful expressions of the nurses at Stillman Infirmary are perhaps the only feature of the current rule at the Hygiene Department on which your newspaper has not to my knowledge glowingly commented. There was a day, under the ancient regime, when a smile from Stillman nurse was rare as a hen's tooth, but happily those times are past...
...that the clean air, the snowy winters with bright skies, the flood of summer sunlight reflecting off the sea, the red barns and white cottages and dry-shingled wharf shacks wash and burn the Thomas Kings and Tom Baileys until they are scraped down to the "cord," leaving their inner texture bare for all to see. There is not that covering of subtlety and finesse which enables people to deceive one another, to appear insincere, to hide true thoughts. But the character of these simple people is so often invisible to us because of this very lack of surface adornment...
...bright and brand new idea in U. S. economy, as opposed to "directed economy," is, of course, that Government should spend as the tide of private industry ebbs, and vice versa. Last week Chair-man Marriner Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board told Manhattan bankers that since private industry is still not ready to take up the burden the Government has no choice but to continue pump-priming...
...last week was typical of hundreds of bootleg cockfights that will take place every Saturday and Sunday this winter. Some 250 fans, who had reached the rendezvous by secret signs, sat on tiers of benches around a sand-covered circular pit. Eagerly they watched two handlers with bright-colored cocks on their arms advance to the centre of the pit, let their fighters peck at one another to get up their dander. There were no bookmakers. Bets (some as high as $100) were verbal, made with one's neighbor on the basis of the cocks' breeding or their...
...Director Abbott, whirlwind direction that keeps it moving, moving, moving; Comic Jimmy Savo contributes wild-eyed dimwit mischief; Fat Girl Wynn Murray, dishpan antics and Amazonian sex threats; Lorenz Hart, brash, bawdy, witty lyrics (best line: She was so chaste that it made her very nervous); Rodgers, a gay, bright lilting score, never better than it is in This Can't Be Love, Sing for Your Supper...