Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wartime Germany few names were more esteemed than that of Willy Messerschmitt, Germany's brightest plane designer. When Hermann Goring used to bellow for more fighters, fighters, fighters, it was "Professor" Messerschmitt who turned them out. Allied pilots paid Willy the highest compliment: when one of them began to jerk his head around nervously they called it "the Messerschmitt twitch...
...brightest prospect was the first response to the new policy at the Palace. The opening day's receipts came to 2½ times the normal take, and the rest of the week held up as well...
Beautiful Georgette Leblanc, an opera singer who claimed to have fallen in love with his poems when she was only 16, placed her heart at his feet. They set up joint housekeeping and a salon sparkling with the brightest names...
...businessman had the push & pull to make big money in Argentina, it was Alberto Dodero. The youngest and brightest of five sons of an Italian immigrant in Uruguay, he built his father's tidy little shipping business into the biggest merchant fleet in South America, became a flashy free-spending tycoon who dazzled even the free-spending Argentines. Last week, at 62, in one of the most startling moves in a full-blown career, he abdicated as shipping king...
...space and sweep of the out-of-doors. The second quality was in his colors. As a reaction against the sunny hues of impressionism, the cubists had often painted with what looked like birdlime and various fine shades of mud. Villon reversed the process: his landscapes seethed with the brightest, sharpest and sometimes shrillest colors he could...