Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other one man broke the general strike in San Francisco last summer.) To followers of Senator Hiram Johnson he is the "most effective" Progressive. Most loyal of friends, he is the bitterest, most remorseless of enemies. Thirty years ago he burst upon San Francisco as "Windy Jack," a noisy brilliant, picturesque young hoodlum reporter with the vocabulary and manners of his teamster days in Arizona. Little about his behavior suggested that he was born of gentlefolk in New York 49 years ago properly educated in New Jersey. After he had been hired, fired, rehired on various San Francisco newspapers...
Harvest, her 21st translated book, is little more than a literary scrap-book- Swedish and Biblical legends, reminiscences, travel sketches, reprinted speeches. And the book is not an anthology of brilliant blossoms; epigrammarians will find slim pickings here. But for stout-hearted oldsters who still swear by convention, old fashions, common sense and straight talk, Harvest will be a comfort and a quotable aid. Author Lagerlöf, like all her contemporaries, has been through the mill; unlike most of them, her final comment transcends platitude: "Thanks and praise be to God that the hard truth came wrapped in happy...
...stage show opens with a unique attraction. Before the very eyes of the audience beautiful paintings are completed in colored sand. They start out looking like nothing in particular and end up beautiful landscapes with all the brilliant color of Maxfield Parrish paintings. Gil Lamb and Schlepperman, of Jack Benny's radio programs, are both good for laughs throughout the rest of the show...
...second division. Among the serious contenders, most experts think the Pittsburgh Pirates, with capable but unreliable pitchers, the Chicago Cubs, with dubious pitching and an experimental infield, are too weak to cause serious trouble for either the New York Giants or the St. Louis Cardinals. The Giants, a brilliant defensive team, were seven games ahead of their nearest rivals a month before the season ended last year. Starting with the same line-up this year, they are less likely to be caught napping. The St. Louis Cardinals are eight competent big-league baseball players and Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean...
...brilliant guy, very mechanical, he was, and once he has a job with Thomas A. Edison working on phonographs. When he up and left my mother he always acted like a gentleman and told her where he was and sends her some money sometimes. We comes from good stock, Yankee Americans, we are, away back, and I know we got a minister in the family somewheres...