Word: brightnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to The Chicago Tribune, Parisiennes now wear dog collars. This is not a term for collars of pearls, but an honest-to-goodness dog collar made of bright-colored leather, studded with jewels or tiny spikes, with a wide fringed border on top and bottom which tortures the neck in hot weather. The collars were introduced by one Madame Regnier, who runs a fashion shop during the day, plays leading roles in French comedies at night...
...coloring of the okapi is remarkable; cheeks and jaws are yellowish-white; forehead and muzzle chestnut red; large, ass-like ears red fringed with black. The neck, shoulders, barrel and back vary from sepia and black to deep red; the belly is blackish; the tail bright red with a black tuft. The hind quarters and hind and fore legs are pale cream color, but marked with purple-black stripes, which give a zebra-like effect...
Arthur Brisbane, famed editorial-writer, pictured Rockefeller haranguing his men on The Psychology of Attempting the Impossible, a favorite and perfected theme of his astonishing great-uncle; pictured him stirring them with winged words, plucked bright and burning from the original Greek of the first Olympic leaders...
...They're off!" shouted thousands of voices, but one by one the horses returned behind the barrier; Jockey Donoghue's mount, Defiance, had "broken." The second "They're off!" proved correct. Lord Astor's St. Germans and Lord Derby's Sansovino led with Hurstwood, Bright Night and Tom Pinch. Down the spongy, muddy track squelched the horses, the pouring rain dashing into their faces. Little by little Sansovino and St. Germans drew away from the rest. When the field plodded around the dreaded Tattenham corner it was clear that Sansovino was the winner and some...
...that for most men the cerebration part of a college career is of much less importance than appears on the college catalogue. What a man remembers when he is out of college is the football games, the parties he has thrown--perhaps, and the more "collegiate" part of the bright years. Jones or Smith, in founding a Harvard Club in Kalamazoo or Hong Kong, does not found it upon an astronomy book, useful as that article may have been to him in college. He founds it, quite sentimentally, on the memory of the "Bright college years...