Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Ambassador Saito is the youngest envoy to represent Japan in this country, he is nevertheless regarded as the shrewdest one to come here. Not yet 50, he has already had a brilliant career as a diplomat, having been consul-general at New York and Seattle, Washington...
...peace, soldier, Wartime director of Information (propaganda), book publisher, director of Reuter's news agency, member of Parliament from the Scottish Universities. He has written a score of excellent adventure stories, such as The Dancing Floor, Greenmantle, The Path of the King, and has shown a brilliant flair for dishing up heroes in immensely scholarly, reasonable and sound biographies: Julius Caesar, Oliver Cromwell, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Walter Scott...
...Curia (resident in Rome and Vatican City). One of the matters he laid before the consistory was the appointment of a new Camerlengo. No surprise was it that the Pope presented the name, which the Cardinals speedily approved, of Secretary of State Eugenic Cardinal Pacelli. Thus this brilliant, courtly Prince of the Church may some day preside over a conclave at which he will be decidedly papabile (in line for the papacy) rather than papeggiante (working for the election of another Cardinal...
Next July Dana Greeley will take over the pulpit once held by Rev. Ezra Gannett, first president of American Unitarian Association, and Rev. Paul Revere Frothingham. Born in Lexington, Mass., he is the son of William, Roger Greeley, architect and Unitarian layman. Enterprising but no brilliant student, at Harvard (1931) he played football a few minutes in a Yale game, was president of Delta Upsilon. At 23, before he received his Harvard divinity degree, he took a Unitarian parish in Lincoln, Mass. Last year he went to Concord, N. H., became minister-at-large to New Hampshire Unitarian churches. Dana...
...whole Author Luhan finds her life in Taos very satisfactory. Not a year-round recluse, she often has brilliant friends to stay with her, and then the simple life blossoms out into cocktails, dinner parties, crackling conversation. After such an occasion, she admits with amusement, her Indian husband, who has spent the evening playing solitaire, refers to the salon as "flies buzzing...