Word: brightnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lift and reassure his spirits. No more is he an exception to the rule that a President also needs a friend with the gumption to remind him that he cannot always be right, offer sympathetic but searching criticism of his plans and purposes, occasionally say "no" to his bright inspirations. More impulsive than most, Franklin Roosevelt had such a salutary intimate in the late Louis McHenry Howe. Since that devoted little secretary took to his deathbed more than a year ago, impartial White House correspondents have noted with increasing frequency that the President's other advisers are prone...
...formal convention of U. S. hoboes. There were hundreds of celebrities, like the Brazilian Ambassador, Post master General Farley, Marshall Field, Cinemactress Constance Bennett, who emerged from 250 private railroad cars and made their way to shabby old Churchill Downs. At the track Owner Widener shared his box with bright-eyed Sir Bede Clifford, Governor-General of the Bahamas, believing he had never before had so good a chance to win a Derby...
...branch lines are laid with 131-lb. rails. As conservative as the roads themselves, official statements are perennially drab in format. Last week Union Pacific broke its tradition of severe grey covers by dressing up its annual report for 1935 with a picture of a streamlined locomotive with a bright-colored U. P. shield on its snout. Though in an enterprising industrial company such a change would cause no comment, in a railroad it was startling enough to make headlines...
...members of the college, who are interested, are invited to attend this meeting and participate in the discussion. The conclusions and resolutions reached will be determined from the combined votes of members and those just "auditing" the affair, thus giving more weight to the final decisions. Provided that enough bright, enthusiastic young men filled with a desire to correct the many evils of this wicked world attend the meeting, this new idea should prove a howling success and give the Union an new lease on life...
...Dove points out that, 19 centuries ago, Pliny described almost the same method of creating artificial unicorns. The Maine biologist concludes that the bright myth of the unicorn may not have arisen solely from man's unaided imagination but from artful transplantation by ancient shepherds, who created single-horned animals to serve as dominant and easily distinguished leaders of their herds...