Word: brightnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though his landscapes sometimes melted too much in atmospheric blues, his design was usually crisp and all his own. In a few pictures, like Fête de Suquet, with its bright, yellow, sunstruck, secretive buildings and dancing figures, he achieved without strain a poignancy of design that some modern painters sweat for. In 1937 the Paris Exposition awarded him his greatest honor: the Grand Prix for painting...
...nominally Christianized western world, Christianity might sometimes seem an old, unhappy, far-off thing; but in the East, the bright star still went before, was still followed by eager seekers asking "Where is He?" Christ's mission on earth was a missionary enterprise: Go ye therefore, and teach all nations. . . . Conscious of this command, and its full implications in an increasingly un-Christian world, on Christmas Day many a Western-Christian looked toward India, where, at Madras Christian College, 450 Christian men and women from 65 nations were gathered last week...
...Corcoran, Hopkins & Co. into the armament business was a chance to hitch New Deal pump-priming to National Defense. In the democratic jitters after Munich they saw a glittering opportunity to butter up and stimulate heavy industry without surrendering to it on the issues of labor, utilities, regulation. The bright prospect to them was that businessmen who got Government millions in armament orders could hardly object to continued and even intensified regulation, especially if it were in the name of National Defense. Public health, housing, power, all could be tied to Rearmament-for-uplift, and Franklin Roosevelt would have...
...voted down these offers, were apathetic to this attempt to lift the general level of living of the whole community. But gradually the Foundation saw to it that the schools acquired toilets and electric lights, better instruction and medical attention, and in general the darkened communities began to grow bright, cheerful and happier...
...asked the bright young thing, "is President Lowell?" pointing on the picture of the boy cutting his birthday cake on page...