Word: brightnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paunchy, baldheaded, double-chinned man, whose trousers seem never to have been pressed, smiled the smile of vindication. He, Roy Asa Haynes, bright morning star of the Anti-Saloon League from Hillsboro, Ohio, had suffered two years of nearly total eclipse. Last week President Coolidge had him appointed Acting Prohibition Commissioner, under the new re-organization act. For four years after President Harding appointed » him Federal Prohibition Commissioner he held the center of the Prohibition Enforcement stage; since April, 1925, when General Lincoln C. Andrews became Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Prohibition, he has danced through...
When the U. S. was very young,* wooden bowls were turned where "dish timber" grew and "minifers" (pins) came whence brass could be drawn into wire. New England resourcefulness produced "Yankee notions" which found a ready market with the agrarian Dutch, the simple Quakers, the luxury-loving Southerners. Bright young Yankees left home with a packful of Neighbor Brown's nutmegs, Neighbor Smith's pie tins and Uncle Timothy's rawhide "whangs" (shoe-laces). Bronson Alcott hit the road with tinware and almanacs instead of going to Yale. Worcester Polytechnic Institute was founded by John Boynton, onetime...
...evil companionship. He cannot decide that and a hundred other matters. Uncertainty makes him surly and surliness alienates his educated children, hastening their departure and his decline from peasant-bourgeois hardheadedness. One turns out an indolent woman's man. The girl is a prig. The other son, bright and gentle, joins the revolutionaries. They are, as Pyotr was, boys without any family tradition. The seed of their difficulty, as of Russia's, was the so sudden liberation and enrichment of their peasant forbear by his aristocratic master at the Emancipation. The Russian bear did not learn to dance...
...Apollos, a Jew, had a pronounced geographical tendency that kept getting her into scrapes. She even had a child by Vespasian when the future emperor was only a centurion. Her wanderings make the frame of this novel wide. Her adventures, which are as unintermittent as they are various, provide bright colors for the picture...
...about wars, is not unaccomplished. His story has many an authentically stirring moment-a Yankee band challenging the Rebels with "Dixie" before the carnage at Fredericksburg; a sardonic Southern gallant shooting between his horse's ears on a midnight pursuit; the preparations for a lonely sabre duel; a bright-haired Richmond belle riding through magnolia-fragrant lanes and other pleasant spots. But the story itself is less satisfactory. The web of realism hangs loosely upon its romantic skeleton. Two cousins Hale, Canadians, are turned from Federal mercenaries into Confederate impostors, and from comrades into enemies, by the circumstances...