Word: brightened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francis Potter, onetime Baptist, onetime Unitarian, onetime Universalist. Long a popularizer of religion, in books and lectures, Dr. Potter is currently absorbed with the study of extrasensory perception (telepathy, clairvoyance, prophecy), believes it possible to identify this phenomenon with Humanism. It has been Dr. Potter's custom to brighten his services by such devices as using rosebuds to baptize babies. He has made his Humanists work at their rather insubstantial faith by devoting themselves to self-improvement (through art, music, etc.) and to human improvement, through cooperation with "progressive" organizations. Hence Dr. Potter chose, from among 20-odd causes...
...faucet, nonsense pours out of another. As a comedy of bad manners, The Man Who Came to Dinner turns crude now & then. But with Actor Woolley excellent in the fattest of parts, with most of the jokes buttered on both sides, and with everything from convicts to cockroaches to brighten up the cast, the show is comedy in the best style-all Woollcott and a yard wide...
Freshman football hopes brighten with every day of practice and, despite injuries in the backfield, prospects for Saturday's game appear excellent...
...were still rolling, the ardent Charles Mitchell, supersalesman of the boom years, said calmly, "I am still of the opinion that the reaction has badly overrun itself." Jimmy Walker, defeating Fiorello LaGuardia for Mayor of New York, asked that movie houses show only cheerful pictures in an attempt to brighten the general gloom. A world that saw full-page advertisements offering Manhattan apartments for $45,000 a year, and sable coats for $30,000 to $50,000-a world so jittery that a decline in U. S. Steel to $195 a share meant a panic-would not have believed that...
April is the month when England freshens herself for a new season, when showers brighten the turf at Ascot and Epsom and wandering Britons are homesick. April, too, is the month when His Majesty's Government gives a significant demonstration of its democratic character: in April the Chancellor of the Exchequer appears before a crowded House of Commons to "open" the budget, i. e., to ask the people's representatives to vote the taxes which the people will have to pay. Last April Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon appeared before the Commons with the highest peacetime...