Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many subscribers to the CRIMSON have inquired as to the reason for discontinuing the custom of running bright and informative clippings from the Radcliffe Daily. After some delay during which various desks and mail boxes have been thoroughly ransacked in an effort to locate this publication, it has been discovered that the editorial board has made a change in policy...
Born in Logan, Utah, in 1895, John Gilbert left the traveling stock company of his mother (Ida Adair) for a Califor nia military academy, then dusted desks in a rubber company's western office until his ramrod bearing and bright eye got him jobs as a film extra. Becoming famed in The Big Parade, he played in a series of films with Greta Garbo. Known, like half a dozen other actors, as the "screen's greatest lover," he had been married twice before - once to a girl who sang songs at a training camp where he was stationed...
...between the marble pillars and overstuffed chairs. First came a clergyman in surplice and stole. Then came a number of large dignified gentlemen in silk hats and cutaway coats, and finally a file of choir boys, correctly black cassocked and white collared but with hair strangely mussed, cheeks unusually bright...
...Nanking last week, the progressive Nationalist Government passed a decree forbidding decapitation as a method of punishment. The abolishment of decapitation, however, does not even remotely imply the abolishment of capital punishment in China. It is merely the long, bright, classic sword of the headsman that has been abolished-an antiquated relic deemed unworthy of modern, mechanistic Nationalist China. A Chinese execution is always something of a local holiday. The victim is allowed to drink his fill of rice wine until blissfully intoxicated. At the execution grounds, he kneels down, head thrust forward. Under the old regime...
Like most Andover boys, he went to Yale. A suit-pressing business which he organized paid all his expenses, infuriated old-established rivals, left him a large surplus after his graduation (1913). One of his employes in the pressing business, a bright Italo-Amcrican boy of eight or nine, so delighted Undergraduate Hamilton (then about 18) that he legally adopted him, later sent him through Andover and Yale. This adopted son now has a son of his own, making Bachelor Hamilton a legal grandfather...