Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well he knew that he had many friends in & out of the Senate, yet no intimate friend, was even now as lonely as Franklin Roosevelt since the death of crabby, brilliant, gnomish Louis McHenry Howe. Coldly he could figure that this was a fight he must win, for not simply the Presidency but his Senate seat was at stake. Many a Michigan boss would like to see a more employable man in Washington...
...Amid the brilliant sunshine which Germans call "Hitler weather"-they used to call it "Kaiser weather"-the Führer rumbled off to Danzig in a six-wheeled juggernaut staff car, followed by two Gestapo cars in which guards sat fingering new-style German repeater rifles. They did not shoot when the sidewalk lines of brown-shirted storm troops holding people back in Danzig were repeatedly broken as crowds surged forward cheering. One break was made by a brawny group of Red Cross nurses. Whooping with excitement, young Danzig students risked their lives in dashes right to the juggernaut...
...famous leader-clarinetist of "The Band That Plays the Blues", will be at the Minute Man Record Shop on Boylston Street next Wednesday from three to four. Besides having brought his band from mere local fame to a national peak in the space of one year, Woody is a brilliant musician and really knows whereof he speaks. Drop around and get him to tell you why he thinks all good jazz should be built on the blues--it's worth hearing...
Captain Torbie Macdonald was again the offensive star of the day, but he was forced to share the honors with his up and coming Sophomore understudy, Ed Buckley. Torble scored for the A team on a brilliant fifty yard run; Buckley tossed to a classmate, Greely Summers, for the B team's tally...
Fletcher Watson, Instructor in Astronomy at the Observatory, announced yesterday that he is hopefully expecting a brilliant outburst of meteors to arrive over Cambridge around October...