Word: brightened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the last Pollier corporation was found to possess only a rented office, some hired furniture and not a sou in the bank. Friends of Professor Pollier sent bouquets and potted flowers to brighten his cell, declared that he is innocent, the mere dupe of a master swindler in London, one "Michael Neutski, a Russian...
...this will not suffice, in our judgment, unless as soon as possible after the "houses" have been established and the first few allotments made the faculty allows the students themselves every reasonable freedom in choosing to which groups they will adhere. Nothing so strongly persuades a human being to "brighten the corner" where he is as the fact that he picked it. --New York Herald-Tribune...
Spring was beginning to brighten over the hills of Nazareth, in Galilee. Mary watched the dandelions, listened to the birds, dreamed of the bridalhood soon to crown her betrothal to the boy Joseph. But one night a voice clove through her dreams like a sword edged with moonlight : "Hail, thou that art highly favored, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women...
...Smith delegates pile up. Hoover, to be sure, is making even greater inroads into the strength of the various "favorite sons" set up by his enemies, but that is all the more reason for the Democrats to imitate his tactics. As for the public, the chances are becoming brighten that for the first time in many years the most prominent men in both parties will face each other with more or less conflicting views on most of the important issues, and will give the electorate a chance to make a clear choice between...
...that the Earl of Athlone subsisted for years as a "poor relation" of British Royalty. Edward VII disliked him and was niggardly about allowing him to live rent-free in a mean suite of rooms at Windsor Castle. Not until his sister became Queen-Empress did his future really brighten. At present his duty is merely to preside impartially, in the Union of South Africa, over the incessant squabbles of the factions headed by Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog and famed General Jan Christiaan Smuts...