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Word: brightnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forced Mr. Hughes to stay away from the Court from March 6 to April 17, but when he returned everyone commented on what an amazing comeback he had made. His step was firm and vigorous, his color high, eye bright, voice strong. Then he began to fail. His last appearance was on the Wednesday preceding the term's end, and observers expressed doubt then that he would be able to finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Absentee | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...Bright & early on her 18th birthday, starry-eyed Post-Debutante Brenda Diana Duff Frazier hopped out of bed, answered the telephone, told newsmen: "It's going to be a very quiet day. I'll probably lunch with mummy (Mrs. Frederic Watriss)*and go to the theatre with my grandmother, Lady Williams-Taylor, but that's all. I haven't decided yet what I'll wear." She was still undecided at noon when a Postal Telegraph songster arrived with flowers and caroled Happy Birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 19, 1939 | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Over Cottage Farm Bridge, down Commonwealth Ave., through the Sumner Tunnel, and the lights of the Cyclone heave in sight,--bright lights, climbing, falling, twisting. "I've been on that fool roller coaster three times in a row!" someone boasts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/14/1939 | See Source »

...clothes. This time she plays Joan of Arc to clothesbound men. Few years ago Elizabeth Hawes discovered that clothes make the man miserable. She designed some collarless, tieless, pressless, lightweight, colorful models. Men nudged, pointed, but did not buy. In Men Can Take It, Miss Hawes relates with bright disgust what was wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stripped | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...That morning he had addressed 135 members of the Winnipeg Board of Trade at a good-will breakfast. The Governor's plump wife had spent several hours dressing for her presentation to the King and Queen. The Governor had donned his cutaway and striped trousers, plastered down his bright red hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Quick, Warm Gesture | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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