Word: brightener
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...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...
...grass, it flopped. There was a fairly unanimous feeling that the play would have lasted longer had it been played with more cunning and dexterity. When it became known that Richard Bird and Vivian Tobin were to appear in a second revival, theatregoers anticipated something that might brighten the last long week in Lent...
...brighten the situation by pointing out that almost any ambitions man is, in a sense, "dissatisfied" that it is inherent in human nature to always want more than one already has and that many of the 2259 simply refuse to become overcome by inertia. But it is equally, easy to blacken the picture by assuming that the Alumni Appointment Bureau has not a complete file of the jobless and dissatisfied...
...Richard's bo'sun leaned out of a port. 'Fire, and be damned to you.' " For a long time guns flashed in the night and the great dark sails, punched by cannon balls, slipped down from the spars and let an unshadowed silver brighten the noisy, bloodstained decks. Finally Jones took Pearson's sword and said to him, " '[You have fought] heroically. I hope your sovereign will suitably reward...