Word: brightnesses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bright hopes are being held, and it is generally considered that the step is both ambitions and forward looking...
Crack! Thrown by the Boston centerfielder, the ball hit the catcher's mitt in the same split-second that Travis Jackson of the New York Giants slid for the plate. An instant later, a cloud of dust, settling slowly in the bright September sun, revealed the emphatic figure of Umpire George Magerkurth leaning toward the plate with his hand pointed toward the ground, palm down...
...Bright Honor (by Henry R. Misrock; Jack Kirkland & Sam H. Grisman, producers) is another play about a boys' military school. This one, depicting a school called Newtown Military Academy, better administered and more sleekly appointed than Stone Ridge (see above), presents detailed cross-sections from the daily life of its tin-pot Napoleons and apprentice Casanovas. A kindly teacher of English who considers Browning sonnets more important than Browning machine guns is tormented by the boys until he loses his job, to the detriment of his love life. Bright Honor points out that education at Newtown is smothered under...
...came round, however, not a murmur arose against either Mr. Adams or the hand-picked banker nominated to succeed him in 1938-Philip Adolphus Benson. A likable middle-of-the-roader, Banker Benson has been president of Brooklyn's Dime Savings Bank for four years, is 54, small, bright-eyed, quiet and an assiduous speaker on Thrift...
...Harvard flag evident in many places during the Tercentenary containing only the three open books, with Ve-Ri-Tas, on the bright red background was a development of LaRose. According to heraldic rules, the basic color of the flag should not necessarily be Crimson, but any bright red. The official Crimson color is correct for academic gowns, in as much as it is the livery color. This new flag has not been officially adopted by the University as yet, but such action may be considered in the future, according to Mr. Greene...