Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...School at Yale. Often he had driven by the Edison Laboratories, only three miles from his home, wondered what the insides were like, speculated on the personality of Inventor Edison whom he had seen only in the cinemas. Last week he and 48 other boys, specially chosen as the "brightest" from each state and the District of Columbia, inspected the famed laboratory, met Thomas Alva Edison, matched knowledge in what the daily press excitedly heralded as "The Edison Brain Derby...
Despite prophecies that the winner of the contest would mysteriously become a "second Edison" at once, and rumors that Inventor Edison would turn all his duties over to the "brightest bright boy" and then retire, the contest was held for no such spectacular reason. Its purpose was described in the rules as "to stimulate the interest of the youth of America in mental development, with particular emphasis on scientific matters, and, more generally, in the high ideals that make for the highest type of American manhood." When reports that he would retire continued, Inventor Edison said, "I never intend retiring...
STRANGE INTERLUDE-Eugene O'Neill's curious, long, effective expedition into the human soul (TIME, Feb. 13, 1928). STREET SCENE-A slice of tenement life, deftly cut (TIME, Jan. 21). JOURNEY'S END-Ten men in a World War dugout (TIME, April 1). LIGHT HOLIDAY-The brightest dialog of the season (TIME, Dec. 10). CAPRICE-Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in a merry importation (TIME, Jan. 14). KIBITZER-The preposterous adventures of a Jewish know-it-all in the stock market (TIME, March 4). MUSICAL Best light lines, legs and lyrics: Hold Everything, Whoopee, Follow Thru...
...locker room, adorned with chorus girls in little enough underclothing. Undress is also the basis for a chaste pageant in Ziegfeld's "Whoopee", which has good music as well and the antics of Eddie Cantor. "Spring Is Here" initiating Glenn Hunter into musical comedy is for connoisseurs the brightest and most engaging of this type of attraction though "Hold Everything", an early season offering of Aarons and Freedley is much more a hit by virtue of the much-played air, "Cream in Your Coffee" and the burlesque clowning of Bert Lahr...
...Second, we had it published that the homes of three of the brightest men studying sociology at Minnesota but not belonging to the experimental group, had been lost in the Mississippi flood, which was at that time raising such havoc, and that it would be necessary for these students to leave college unless, among their fellow classmates, sufficient funds could be raised to put them on their feet again. In the third place, we sent forth notice that an appeal had been received from Russia for contributions for food for starving students in their universities...