Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With equally bright insight, some impersonality, average epigrams and over all a great unconscious pathos continues the story of how Ex-Wife tried to make Ex-Husband's image dead in her heart. Numerous distractions, hard liquor, hard work and handsome men fill a certain gap, until she marries one of the last. Heroine and author are a bobbed, grey-eyed, short brunette still short of 30, mother of a five-year-old son. She is Katharine Ursula Parrott, ex-wife of Reporter Lindsay Parrott of the New York Evening Post...
...bright sands and in the bright water at Cape Gris Nez (grey nose), France, were, last week, the U. S. Zittenfeld twins, 15. There, too, were the English Misses Ivy Hawke, Joan Brunton. Molly Parker and Connie Gilhead-channel swimmers all. There, too, fattest, most bulbous, most famed, was Mrs. Myrtle Huddleston (240 lbs.), who last year remained afloat for 54 hours in a Bronx pool, finally being pulled out in a state of limb-swollen collapse. Worthy water-mates for her roamed also about the beach-an Egyptian, black and gigantic, named Ishak Helmy and a German whose name...
Despite prophecies that the winner of the contest would mysteriously become a "second Edison" at once, and rumors that Inventor Edison would turn all his duties over to the "brightest bright boy" and then retire, the contest was held for no such spectacular reason. Its purpose was described in the rules as "to stimulate the interest of the youth of America in mental development, with particular emphasis on scientific matters, and, more generally, in the high ideals that make for the highest type of American manhood." When reports that he would retire continued, Inventor Edison said, "I never intend retiring...
...time to provide a throne for the dusky, red-fezzed potentate. Acting Secretary General J. A. M. C. Avenol, flustered in the absence of his chief, suave, assured Sir Eric Drummond, madly canvassed Geneva's second-hand shops until he found a massive chair heavy with carvings and bright red plush into which the king of Egypt would decorously fit. The democratic, glass-walled Council Chamber of the Secretariat was made into a temporary throne-room, memoranda of etiquette were issued to the press, warning them to appear in sombre and respectful clothes. Wives of League officials were cautioned...
...Familiar to Washington is the new Foreign Minister Baron Kijuro Shidehara, onetime (1919-22) Ambassador to the U. S. Bright eyed, ever smiling, Baron Shidehara would be an agreeable, helpful principal in any conference on naval reductions. As Foreign Minister in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Wakatsuki, preceding Baron Tanaka, he inaugurated the policy of conciliation with China which Tanaka so disastrously upset...