Word: brightnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilson. In 1912 young Lawyer Joe Davies. Democratic National Committeeman from Wisconsin, ran Woodrow Wilson's western campaign headquarters in Chicago. When Wilson was elected Mr. Davies was made U. S. Commissioner of Corporations, later upped to chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. He was one of the bright young men of the Wilson Administration, and from another of that group he still has an old photograph inscribed. 'To my old side kick," signed "Franklin Roosevelt." He declined the job of Ambassador to Russia, or to Italy, or of Governor General of the Philippines, and elected...
...stocky assistant director. He picked her out of a mob scene and gave her a lorgnette. The lorgnette made what is known as a "halation"-a spot of light reflected upon the camera lens and magnified. Nowadays cameramen watch scenes for halation. When they find them they blur the bright spot with putty or paint or move a light to avoid the reflection. No putty was daubed on Dietrich's lorgnette. It attracted attention to her. In the next picture she got a better part. Sieber worked hard trying to push her ahead. After a few months she married...
Definitely feeble nowadays, Pope Pius XI has lately been variously described as suffering from dropsy, uremia, Bright's disease, asthma, poor metabolism, heaviness of limb. Last week a prelate in private audience with the Holy Father made reference to newspaper accounts of his health. As put into English by a United Pressman in Rome, the Pope's sporting reply...
Projected against this background, the panorama of departmental life becomes more understandable. Although the Physics Department by no means stands alone, it provides an excellent illustration. It numbers among its faculty some of the bright lights of the physicist's world; it's pains-taking investigation and teaching of graduate students bear the hall-mark of authority...
Blue jerseys and red jerseys arms around shoulders, a half-fledged snakedance on the field, hats waving in "Bright College Years". Hours to get out of the Bowl, hours to get back to the Taft. Gloomy cocktails...