Word: brightnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Burrett, of Rochester, N. Y., contained the not original assertion that 20 years will be added to the average span of life in the next half century, and that the time is near when it will be "a crime" to die under 75 years of age from diabetes, Bright's disease, the cardiac vascular diseases and pos-sibly cancer. Dr. Leonard Williams, London specialist, recently made a similar statement, setting up 120 years as man's probable goal. It is true that the span of life in the United States has increased approximately 15 years since public health...
...MARGIN?Aldous Huxley ?Doran ($1.75). Seventeen brief notes and essays by the most brilliant young literary man in England. Pleasant, intelligent, rather entertaining little papers. The astonishing thing about them is that they are so mild. So very mild. The book might have been written by almost any bright young gentleman who chose to model his style on that of E. V. Lucas. Did you ever think you were about to degust a genuine pre-War cocktail and then discover as you swallowed that the beverage was strictly...
...Sheik?the 102 detective stories in which the murder occurs in a hermetically sealed room sans exits or entrances? innumerable books about small Middle Western towns?wondering why there should be so many books about small Middle Western towns?Babbitt?calling other people babbitts? being called a babbitt? The Bright Shawl with the only undersexed hero in recent fiction?goods books? books not even a reviewer would sell second-hand?the first half of The Judge?Lady into Fox?Through the Wheat?A Pocketful of Poses? Beasts, Men and Gods?letters by Franklin K. Lane?by Walter Hines Page?...
...attired in academic dress, the procession made a striking spectacle, with the red, yellow, blue, and green hoods-contrasting brilliantly with the black caps and gowns. Against such a background there stood out in an even more startling manner the delegates from numerous foreign learned societies, whose gowns were bright red from head to foot. The entire assemblage rose to its feet and applauded for several minutes when Dr. Stratton and the speakers stepped onto the stage...
...judge by the number of offers from bond offices which the average senior receives in his morning's mail, the college education is not the utterly valueless thing it is commonly considered. There seems to be almost innumerable "houses" only too anxious for the addition of a few "bright young college men" to their staff of salesmen; even if those same bright young men have obtained a degree in Physics or English Literature by only the narrowest of margins...