Word: brights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alexander Woollcott−"Bold, bright, bawdy comedy...
...shows they have been reading Popular Mechanics in addition to their old favorite Gazette. Spring fever got in the bones of the department and the order went out from headquarters to sweep down the gutters. As usual, prompt execution trod on the heels of the cleansing ukase. Supplied with bright new brooms, the clean-up squad arrived to find that certain streets below Massachusetts Avenue were lined with automobiles. Thereupon, the law enforcers cleverly realized that it might be well first to remove the cars. But what consternation pervaded their ranks when the autos were found locked and their owners...
Cumings' performance in the cage during the past season was one of the bright features in a season marred only by a 1 to 0 defeat at the hands of the Yale skaters in the rubber game of the H-Y series. In this contest, the lone goal came after 87 minutes of strenuous play, during which Cumings stemmed a Blue rush time and again with brilliant stops. Only the remarkable play of Captain Jenkins prevented Cumings being acclaimed the "best" of the college goalies, and with another year of competition, he should succeed to the laurels heaped upon...
Prospects for a successful season on the ice next year are unusually bright, although the entire first string forward line of Beals, Hodder, and Austin graduate, together with Chase, strongest of the Crimson defense players. Coach Bigelow will have a nucleus of 10 letter men among the returning players around which he will build next year's team. In addition, Coach Dempsey will turn over another undefeated Freshman sextet eligible for its first year of University play...
...yesterday when the new shell was given its initial trial on the Charles by the first University eight. To a casual observer, the only difference between the new boat and the Pocock shell seemed to be one of color, the latest addition to the University equipment being painted a bright grass green...