Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...High School Day. Newsworthy because it is the oldest public school in the U. S.,* Boston Latin School is more newsworthy because it sets almost as much store by the classics as it did 300 years ago and because few schools, public or private, can match its record for brilliant students...
...Charles R. White, trying for his third Maryland Hunt Cup victory in a row, came up fast as the field went over the last two jumps. On the home stretch, down a lane between red fences to hold the crowd back, the two fought through one of the brilliant finishes for which the Maryland Hunt Cup is famed. When it was over, Hotspur II was still leading, by less than half a length. Fifteen lengths behind, the two other finishers straggled home-Mrs. Vadim Makaroff's Gigolo and Benjamin Leslie Behr's Outlaw...
...characters, to laugh at itself. Technically as adept as Chapayev, with an equally good performance by Boris Chirkov (last month made an "Honorary Artist of the Republic"), The Youth of Maxim also contains a musical score and sound arrangements contributed by U. S. S. R.'s brilliant young composer. Dmitri Shostakovich (Lady Macbeth of Mzensk). It begins a trilogy which will carry the biography of Maxim up to the present time. Best sound: "Varshayianka," sung by workers in jail to infuriate their guards...
Spray foamed from the silver hull as it gathered speed under the surge of its four Hornet motors. After a half-minute run, the 21-ton Pan American Clipper lifted easily from the waters of San Francisco Bay. headed out through the Golden Gate under a brilliant mid-afternoon sun. The world's first transport plane designed specifically for transocean service was finally on its way over the Pacific to Hawaii on the first stage of Pan American Airways' projected 8,000-mi. ocean airway to China. Four years of intensive work had prepared this ship and this...
...CEILING-Lincoln Kirstein-Putnam ($2). Fashionably intellectual poems by the brilliant young editor of the late Hound and Horn...