Word: brightnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Long before the first golden-rod grows bright in far away fields, the yellow lights of the new season are raised above Broadway. By September, usually, the first hit has arrived in town; the streets off Times Square are crammed with stage folk who hope this winter not to play Des Moines; the dramatic critics, yellow and sick from uncustomary contact with the sun, are once more being kittenish on the keys. At the centre of all this glittering activity are the producers; it depends upon them whether the new year shall be tawdry or delightful...
...opponent, a Dry named Charles Martin Hay, to Alabama's buffoon Senator James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin. But Missouri voters, last week, gave Senator Reed a farewell rebuke and gave the Democratic nomination to Mr. Hay, who is neither handsome, eloquent nor blatant. In school, Mr. Hay was bright. In St. Louis, he is a lawyer. In politics, he preaches Prohibition and yet says he will support Alfred Emanuel Smith...
...seen this town when everything was bright...
...especially enjoyed watching the bright faces and listening to the merry voices of the thousands of children . . . enormous crowds . . . delightful experience . . fine weather...
...Color. Bright, navy blue is to be the predominant color of fall fashions. But the most fastidious of women may appear without shame in creations of a red-brown hue. Very smart is a combination of the two, or of shades of navy blue...