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Word: brightnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bright, N. J., one evening last week, a village policeman spied seven nude girls bathing in the Atlantic Ocean. He cried out at them. One of them retorted: "Go look at the law, will ya?" He did. The law specifically prohibited nude bathing from 6 a. m. to 9 p. m. It was after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Too Late | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...Bright's councilmen soon summoned, amended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Too Late | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...Setting down in slang the petty thought and emotion of lower-class America, John Weaver's verse, "In America" was a success. His success was partly due to simple spelling (Milt Gross's anagrams are too difficult), but also to his bright reflection of the city-dweller's curious combination of cynicism and sentimentality. The Brooklyn girl of his first novel has not enough of the cynicism to guard her against too much sentimentality, so she flounders miserably through a crush on the high school football hero, a passionate affair with a marine sergeant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brooklynese | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...would there, under any circumstances, be any point in so doing. The man -is not now married; his former wife's name is not Jeanne but Eugenia. Perhaps as you say "no one could guess why Morgan (wrong again) Hoyt should have wished to leave J:he bright (?) ship," etc., but some of them seem to have made a pretty good job of trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 30, 1928 | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...brother, Henry M. Hoyt Jr., had committed suicide eight years ago; his sisters are Nancy Hoyt, writer of sophisticated fiction (Roundabout, Unkind Star), and Elinor Wylie, poetess (Nets to Catch the Wind), novelist (Jennifer Lorn). No one could guess precisely why Morgan Hoyt should have wished to leave the bright ship and the people who were chatting on the deck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 16, 1928 | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

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