Word: brightnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...schools and colleges opened, many a student and teacher, stranded in Europe, failed to answer the roll call. But not resourceful Miss Alice T. Scheh, a Brooklyn high-school stenography teacher, who had an adventure to report to her pupils when she faced them bright & early one morning this week. Having spent the summer traveling alone in Iran and Iraq, Miss Scheh arrived in Italy with a return steamship ticket and a flat purse. Her ship developed "engine trouble," failed to sail. So did other ships to which the Italian Line transferred her. Unable to get either passage or refund...
Latest artist to move in on the campus is slight, baldish, bright-looking, tweedy Dale Nichols, 35. School begins for him this week at the University of Illinois, whose trustees, impressed because he won a $300 William Randolph Hearst prize at a Chicago Art Institute exhibit in 1935, because Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum bought and hung his End of the Hunt, because he is a two-fisted advocate of "beauty" v. "ugliness" in art, last summer appointed him for one year, first art apostle to the Illini under a five-year Carnegie Foundation grant...
...many words do you know?" most educated adults will grossly underestimate their own vocabularies. Dr. Robert H. Seashore, Northwestern University, found (by judicious sampling) that average college students could recognize 61,000 basic and 96,000 derivative terms in an unabridged dictionary, a total of 157,000 words; bright students could recognize 190,000. Dr. Seashore pointed out that in the days of Shakespeare (whose working vocabulary has been given by scholars as 15,000 words) the English language was much smaller than...
...Edward ("Eddie") Marsh knows as many such stories as there were incredible characters in preWar, bilingual British society. In A Number of People he strings them along on the bright, thin thread of his own life story with all the wit, charm, and intimate malice of a puckish British Proust. Unlike Proust, Marsh seldom sees through his irascible, Latinizing, fox-hunting dukes and musical, horsey, but absent-minded duchesses, although their snobbishness often makes him wince...
...almost a year bright little Sidney Skolsky has been a columnist without a column. A onetime Earl Carroll press-agent and Broadway gossip, Skolsky went to Hollywood for the New York Daily News in 1934, quit three years later when he was ordered back to New York. He worked for a while for King Features Syndicate, but he and Louella Parsons disagreed on whether Garbo would marry Stokowski (Skolsky was right) and that got him in bad with Hearst. Since the fall of 1938 "the little black mouse" has been a familiar sight in Hollywood studios and night clubs...