Word: brightnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reader. He liked to look at books with pictures in them, the kind of pictures he saw in Punch or on theatrical handbills. He collected old mezzotints and caricatures, and would sit for hours with one of his scrapbooks in his lap, staring at the twisted faces and bright colors as if he were reading some racy tale. The people who bought his books were on the lookout for collections such as these; they, like Leverhulme, cared little for literature, and so it came about that first editions of Thackeray were knocked down for $6 or so, while Lawrence Gomme...
...long delayed match between R. S. Wright '26 and H. N. Rawlins '27, the bright lights of the national title holding University team, in the semifinals of the University tournament has been indefinitely postponed, it was announced yesterday. Rawlins, present holder of the College Championship, is suffering from an infected finger and will not be able to play for a week at the last. The Crimson captain-elect may find it necessary to default to the University number one player...
...stars a few years back and because we believe that she has outgrown pretty songs and trick dancing. It seems a shame that she should run the risk of spoiling the memories of "Pom-Pom" and "Lady Billy". It seems a shame that any actress should play to the bright footlights of musical comedy in the decline of her popularity. The audience is quick to forget and quick to show that it has forgotten...
...still labor in too large degree under the lock step system, which makes substantially the same demand on the bright boy as upon his less able companion...
...left for West Point yesterday afternoon determined to repeat this year their 16 to 5 massacre of the Army horsemen last season. With two of the Crimson starters in the game with the Cadets a year ago facing them again this year the prospects for a repetition seem especially bright...