Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bright spring day three damoiselles were gaily endeavoring to turn their roadster around in Holyoke Street. It was the kind of a car that means for the open road, and its mood was the mood of its fair inhabitants. And it frankly gave in to claustrophobia and wouldn't turn. So the hilarious females, full of the joie de vivre, summoned a passing Harvard lad to extricate them from their troubles. Sir Lancelot obliged like a true knight, but, the troubles over, he was heard by the damsels no longer in distress to drop the remark "Just Radcliffe...
...bright spring day such a pretty young cherubim was perched on the top of a fence in the vicinity of Kirkland House, quietly cycing the passing stragglers on their way to nine o'clock classes. Suddenly she squealed with childish delight, and then quickly stifled her cry for fear of being heard and seen. Hunching her shoulders and crouching like an adventurous puppy waiting to pounce upon a mouse, she cautiously watched a tall, scrawny human being ambulate down the side-walk toward her. Indeed, the prospective victim-- for victim she intended him to be--was worthy of attack...
Despite the popularity and readability of Miss Borden's previous novels, the future of "Action For Slander" does not seem bright. It lacks a plot of sufficient body to support the characterization which is, by and large, well-conceived. Her new effort makes fairly amusing reading, but little more can be said...
...Bright Bird...
...Yankee shrewdness. Born in Gloucester, Mass. where his father was a merchant, Roger Babson has probably made more money out of statistics than anyone in the U. S. One of the chapters in his autobiography is headed, "$1,200 Becomes Millions." As a youth, he relates, he "always liked bright, jolly girls, full of the dickens." But he kept his eye on the main chance, and after a disillusioning turn in investment banking, followed by a bad case of tuberculosis, he set himself up in Wellesley Hills, Mass. as a purveyor of business figures under the name Babson...