Word: brightnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Behind us people were cheering, shouting for beer, waving banners. They all wore my daddy's bright blue badges. They honked horns, squawked squawkers, shot off torpedoes, threw confetti at us. When we reached the Union station, they put me on a train. In Springfield, Ill., I had another parade up to the state capitol. Then a man, who said he was chief clerk of the elections department, told me that I would probably be put on the ballot in November. Then I will be able to ask all the Illinois voters this question: "Should the Congress...
...foot shark nosed lazily about, off Santa Catalina Island in the Pacific. It was a bright day. In the pellucid blue beneath him the shark could see scores of rakish fish shapes, deep brown, like his own; silver-edged green, mottled grey, golden bellied; big tuna, amber jacks and yellowtails curving dreamily hither and yon, flashing off now and again for a bite of food. A school of his kind wrangled over a dead porpoise, but the big shark had fed. He lolled contentedly...
Then a commotion on the sea's bright surface caught his eye. Slowly, with cautious curiosity, he circled up that way. It was something ruddy, swimming right on top. That it was no fish could be told from the ribbons and puffs of silver bubbles it made beneath it. It was one of those forked animals from the land, a man. On board the U. S. S. Maryland, gobs spied the shark, saw him swing over to inspect, and follow at no great distance, their buddy, John Radowich of the Pacific battle fleet, who was trying to swim...
...naval history, from Leif Ericsson to Admiral Dewey. Peter etched and painted animals. Thomas stuck to illustrating, doing as high as 250 plates in a single year. Off and on he visited Europe, but in 1871 and 1873 he made the trips that made his name, to the bright-hued rock-gorge country of the Far West with government geologists. It was an ideal locale for a devoted student of Turner and of nature's iridescent color effects. Congress paid him $10,000 apiece for his companion canvases, "Chasm of the Colorado" and "Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone," which...
Santa Barbara knew him in its sunny winters. In the summers he repaired to an old fashioned cottage on the oceanward end of Long Island, at East Hampton, lingering there till autumn fogs moved through the scrub-oak and laurels and the wind blew cold over bright dunes. This year he went late to East Hampton, for burial...