Word: brightnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After all, the seven o'clock nuisance is only a relic of the Middle Ages--a reminder of the bright days when lads and maidens frolicked gaily out to the cow pasture several hours before dawn and had to be safely tucked away by the time the our few tolled--which happened to be several hours before it is considered correct to present one's self at any properly regulated dance. Those sensitive souls who have failed to become immune to the bell, curse its insistent clamor as heartily as the bell-man, doomed to incommode not only himself...
...major contribution of the proceedings was the introduction of Walter Huston, recently rescued from vaudeville. His playing of the pitiful Pitt is one of the bright spots of the season. It gives promise of increasing brightness in seasons to come...
...Instead of a Lenine at the helm, there appeared Benito Mussolini, the man of the hour. Seizure of power under the above circumstances, I am inclined to think, does not deserve to be censured. Surely a modern Cincinnatus who has had the ability to bring about the "one bright spot in Europe" must have meditated considerably before choosing his plan to take possession of the ship of state Sincerely yours. F. E. LA CAUBA...
This little book was written shortly before the war, during the streamingly bright summer days of the year 1914, when one was protected by political security. Heavy years have passed for us Germans, but nothing has destroyed that fellow feeling we have for the sun, water and earth...
...asked him What he thought of Lord Grey's letter." Or an interview with Foch 'during the dangerous German drive of 1918: "General Foch, before answering, took a few whiffs from his 2? cigar and looked at me with a smile of quiet confidence in his bright brown eyes. 'They won't break through,' he said, and the words were as percussive as pistol shots...