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Word: brightnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Preston greeted the new men and introduced Alex Bright '19, member of last year's Olympic Skiing Squad, who spoke on the Olympic competition. Moving pictures of the team in action last year were exhibited, and the plans for the season were presented...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SKI TEAM HAS RECORD TURNOUT AT MEETING | 12/9/1936 | See Source »

...Under a bright Hawaiian moon, dainty Anna May Wong put out to sea one night last week in a pineapple barge. Embarked on neither a pleasure jaunt nor a cinema stunt, Actress Wong and 446 fellow passengers were en route to the U. S. For three weeks, they had been stranded in Honolulu by the shipping strike (TIME, Nov. 23). A few tourists, including a California man and an Australian woman who met and married in the interim, had enjoyed their isolation. But most were glad to be towed in the pineapple barge last week, two miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sea Stall | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...which best exemplifies all the faults and all the virtues of all the pictures made in any given year, Love on the Run should win it. From the first word in its title to the last shot on the screen, of Crawford kissing Gable, it represents a kind of bright, composite photograph which, for historians, might be labeled Mass Entertainment 1936. Important only to historians, the median 1936 cinema should please the average 1936 cinemaddict. Average shot: Franchot Tone telling Joan Crawford a knock-knock: "Machiavelli good suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 7, 1936 | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...learn the family business, but his deep religious feeling has found outlets in innumerable charities and philanthropies. Cultured, musical, humorous, an inveterate joiner, he lives half the year in a big mansion on Manhattan's East 66th Street, half the year on an estate in Sea Bright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Old Factors | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...enjoyment of patterns is rarely the reader's chief aim. Therefore, any disposition of printing material which, whatever the intention, has the effect of coming between author and reader is wrong. It follows that is the printing of books meant to be read there is little room for "bright" typography. Even dullness and monotony is the typesetting are far less vicious to a reader than typographical eccentricity or pleasantry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

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