Word: brightnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Station was bedlam as troops of grinning boys in uniform piled off trains accompanied by young Scout Masters. Busses hustled them out to the river front parks where cooking, dining, administration tents and innumerable little wooden comfort stations had already been erected. The arrivals scattered over 350 acres, erected bright-colored tents for themselves, pounded tent pegs and fingers. At 8:45 next morning a trench mortar boomed and 25,000 Boy Scouts stood at attention. It boomed again and the flags of 52 nations rose in an avenue of flags beneath the Washington Monument. It boomed a third time...
Night and Day was issued as a weekly from freshly painted (cream interior, light-blue and black exterior) offices near London's Coliseum Theatre by the firm of Chatto & Windus under the editorial direction of five bright young men. Chief of these is John Hugo Edgar Marks, Borneo-born, Cambridge-educated, former film critic of the New Statesman and Nation. Biggest name among Night and Day contributors is Author Evelyn Waugh, as book critic...
...Atlantic flyer and, in 1932, first person to fly solo across the North Atlantic east to west, serialized his autobiography. Week before publication was to start he blurbed: "The world knows me as a hero, but I am a night bird. . . . Life for me begins when daylight fades and bright lights glitter in the bars and clubs from here to Honolulu. ... I cried when I left my Tahiti sweetheart. . . . Amy [Johnson Mollison, who lately divorced him] has been wonderful to me, but we are poles apart." From England, Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew to Dinan, Brittany, then drove a hired...
...which a greater number of important meteorite finds have been made than in any other U. S. State. He started his scientific career, however, as a biologist. One night in 1923, while he was a biology professor at McPherson College in Kansas, he saw a shooting star so bright that he was sure some of it must have reached earth. The idea so excited him that he chucked biology for star-chasing forthwith...
...Chronicles of Arundel, but like them is based on preRevolutionary U. S. history. Narrator of the tale is one Langdon Towne, whose great ambition is to be an artist and paint pictures of Indians. But the real hero is Major Robert Rogers of Rogers' Rangers. Langdon was a bright lad and did so well at school that his family scraped together enough money to send him to Harvard College. A rum party in his room brought his brief career there to a close; his disappointed father put him to work on his grandfather's farm near Portsmouth. Once...