Word: brightnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...religionists are dubious as to how well they are doing in the unsettled present, they are in no doubt about the glories of their past, and these glories they keep bright with anniversary celebrations. Having lately joined with other churches in celebrating the centenary of the birth of Evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody (TIME, Aug. 17), U. S. Presbyterians next laid plans to recall the fact that Presbyterian foreign missions were instituted a century ago. From this spring to next autumn the centenary will be celebrated with a pageant, a play, many a speech and a broadcast dinner. To the Centennial...
...Dublin through which Gogarty takes his sometimes headlong but not always straightforward course is peopled with queer, usually delightful characters, many of them transatlantically famed. Francis Hackett, George Moore, AE, William Butler Yeats, many a lesser fish swim through the bright underwater of Gogarty's world, and few of them are not good for a laugh, for Gogarty is never reverent even where he admires. Queerest fish of the lot is one "Endymion," who regularly steers his course home by compass, was once arrested for sabering a ham (which he had previously bought) running off with...
Other bridal gowns, some bright green and red, and others which swathe the lady completely from head to foot, leaving only her toes visible, are also shown in the display, which is from early nineteenth century English and French costume books...
...TIME incorrectly credits her with the authorship of the novel, Bright Is the Morning...
...Boys, you've got the world by the tail," chuckled Yale's old Professor Irving Fisher some ten years ago when a couple of bright young graduates outlined their plans for exploiting a patented automatic stop & go traffic signal. By last week these two bright young Yalemen had discovered that if they did have the world by the tail, that was a very poor place to catch it. In Federal District Court in Manhattan Wallace Graydon Garland, class of 1925, and Arnold Caverly Mason, class of 1928, were convicted of conspiracy and mail fraud on 43 counts...