Word: brightnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Latest in a series of profanation which have been perpetrated on the famous statue, this morning's episode was the second attack in as many weeks. On a recent Sunday morning, randals, supposedly representing an checure railway aiding in the woods of New Hampshire, bathed John with bright green paint...
...would be a good trick to decorate the memorial of John Huss, martyred Czech hero who fought for reform of the Catholic Church and was burned at the stake in 1415. On the eve of Conqueror Hitler's birthday, thousands of bunches of primroses soon made a bright carpet about the Huss memorial and in floral letters four feet high appeared the hopeful Czechs' national motto: Pravda Vitezi ("Truth Prevails"). Knowing well that such a sentiment is obnoxious to their Nazi masters, sorrowful Czech policemen removed the decorations...
...buildings which house these exhibits, some of which are almost complete fairs in themselves, are for the most part individually homely. In mass, however, they are peculiarly stimulating. The bright colors and bizarre shapes are gay, the blank walls excellent frames for frequent murals, some good and many not so good. The planning is superb, the lighting exceedingly effective. The overwhelming impression is of incredible, lavish bigness...
...virgin and a Cockney on an African river, won him critical success among adventure connoisseurs, but sold only moderately. His best book, The General, a subtle attack on stuffed-shirt generals, sold 1,935 copies in the U. S. By Teutonic mistake, Author Forester's fame is particularly bright in Germany, where The General is still widely regarded as a serious salute to military might...
Margery Sharp is a bright-eyed, diminutive, facetious English girl whose The Nutmeg Tree was a surprise best-seller two years ago. As a followup, Harlequin House is less surprising; it tells a bouncing, bubbling, frankly inconsequential story about giddy Lisbeth and her shiftless brother Ronny, with Lisbeth managing four men at once in a campaign to reform Ronny who had spent six months in jail for somebody else's racket...