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Word: brightnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elsa Maxwell). Elsa Maxwell, the plump swizzle-stick of Manhattan's Cafe Society, stood sponsor last week to Manhattan's latest revue. On opening night, most of Café Society found their seats quite nimbly in the dark, came through like little majors with applause. Bursting with bright ideas, Who's Who usually fumbled them in either the writing or the acting. Possibly Producer Maxwell would have considered it not quite suitable for the show to seem too professional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 14, 1938 | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...ends of the earth telling of miraculous one-suit hands being dealt to people with weak hearts, welcomed a card game in which a one-suit hand was impossible. Other card players found the possibilities of the new deck intriguing. To the poker crowd, for example, it opened bright vistas of more easily filled straights, green flushes, and a new one-eyed jack for the wild games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Super-Bridge | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...Austrian father and a Hungarian mother, a girl baby was born 46 years ago in Bridgeport, Conn. As she learned to talk and experiment with things, little Bessie Pastor showed herself to be a bright child. In high school she diligently studied chemistry, later went to a technical school. To her girl friends she passed out soaps and lotions, the products of her own test tubes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Iceolite | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...paints down-&-outers in a hobo "jungle" he distorts them to get an effect equivalent to the ugliness he feels. In last week's show of 22 paintings were several in Evergood's vein of wild, clownish humor. Sunday in Astoria and Recreation, big canvasses composed in bright, crude colors, showed city workers reveling on their day off. Artist Evergood's distaste for rich playgirls was expressed in Beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Distorter | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

Eliot's 4 to 1 victory at New Haven over the Davenport racquetmen, Yale inter-College champions, was the only bright spot in a gloomy Saturday for House athletes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELIOT SOLE CONQUEROR IN HOUSE COMPETITION | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

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