Word: overbright
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...book, Witness, Chambers describes the man whom he knew only as "Felix," and who knew him as "Bob," thus: "I did not particularly like Felix. He looked like an average young fellow, seemingly simple, not overbright." Many times, in the late '305, Chambers met Felix on a Washington or Baltimore street corner, gave him documents to be photographed with a Leica purchased by the Communist underground. For such work, Felix had been trained in Moscow, where he traveled on a forged U.S. passport. Once Chambers went to Felix's Baltimore home, but he had only a vague impression...
...father, the late great eye specialist Dr. Frank Buller, died when she was 3. She tried being a Montreal debutante, gave it up to study at Manhattan's Art Students' League. There Kenneth Hayes Miller told her she could improve her flat, overbright pictures by confining her palette to very few colors. To this good advice she credits the three-dimensional reality of her pictures. It takes her about two months for a painting...
Take My Tip (by Nat N. Dorfman; Mack Hilliard, producer) is, of course, about the 1929 stockmarket crash. A not overbright Connecticut householder has bet his shirt on something called Triplex Oil and, sure enough, Triplex Oil takes a devastating tumble. Playwright Dorfman is not so sanguine as to have Triplex Oil ride the Connecticut punter and the play back to prosperity and happiness. That end of the comedy is taken care of by a machine, well "planted" in Act I, for engraving monograms on soap...