Word: brightness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers stood up to each other in public last week, it was clear to everyone that they had known each other quite well in the mid-'30s. Those were the days when Hiss was publicly on the rise as a bright young New Dealer and Chambers was an undercover Communist agent. The point which the House Un-American Activities Committee wanted to demonstrate was that-as Chambers had testified-they had been Communists together...
...Czar's Russia was distant and implausible. The U.S., fighting Spain, was young, uncoordinated and callow. Queen Victoria ruled Britannia, and Britannia ruled the waves. Young ladies learned the simple difference between right & wrong along with embroidery and piano playing. A new century was just around the corner, bright with the promise of Progress...
...birdlike, smiling face was framed in a white lace collar and black ribbon choker; on her feet were pointed little one-button shoes. But there were surprising touches too: as a guard for her wedding ring she wore a blue celluloid chicken band, and one ear had a bright green dab of paint...
...expecting to see any bright lights," warned Perry Carmichael, once an Oklahoma City teacher, and now Emperor Haile Selassie's director of elementary education. But he did promise 20? butter, 40? chickens, a three-year contract with a starting salary of $3,000 to $4,500 a Year (Oklahoma City's starting salary: $2,000). Besides, he said reassuringly, Haile Selassie is "as amiable as an Oklahoman." The emperor promised to pay passage over, but anyone returning within the first three years will have to pay his or her own way back...
Caldwell was especially good at mimicking Southern folk rhetoric, its mixture of lecherous filth and vivid images drawn from rural life, its passages of whining literalness relieved by sudden bright patches of corrupt folk poetry. His ability at recording poor white and Negro speech was, in fact, greater than his ability to make creative use of it in the framework of a novel, which is why his best pieces read more advantageously as off-center anecdotes than as realistic narratives...