Word: brightener
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...suggestion that girl pages as a regular thing might brighten up Congress, Doorkeeper Sinnott, thinking of cloakroom conversations he has heard, threw up his hands, exclaimed, "It just wouldn't work...
Died. John Joseph Boylan, 70, Tammanyite, for 16 years U. S. Representative of the docks, warehouses, clothing factories, theatrical lodging houses on the west side of midtown Manhattan; who conducted an unsuccessful one-man campaign to brighten the Congressional Record by headlines, cartoons and comic strips; after long illness; in Manhattan...
...live, but the most of the situations are either so ridiculous or so close to the truth that they compel laughter. Enough in itself is the wild-eyed performance of John Barrymore as Gabby Harrigan, the governor with the Communist thatch, who makes political promises solely in order to brighten the voters' lives with anticipation. Framework for the picture's satiric thrusts is the story of an exotic senatorial campaign which is fought out by the opposing candidates' football teams, in which the Saturday afternoon crowds are the political rallies, in which touchdowns mean ballots...
...brighten the evening American, General Manager Connolly announced he would use two brand-new Hearstlings: Inez Callaway Robb, weaned away from Joseph Medill Patterson's New York Daily News where she wrote a lively society column under the Newsname "Nancy Randolph," and Francis J. Powers, former sportswriter for the New York...
...reported discovery of a mysterious radiation, called "N-rays," by a certain Professor Blondlot of France. Professor Blondlot could not explain the source of the "N-rays'' but he declared that if they were passed through a prism they would cause an electric spark to brighten visibly...