Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girls on personality and on a long list of character factors. He discovered that to be ranked high in personality a girl should be: interesting in conversation, competent, a person of wide interests, intelligent, athletic, a good sport, sincere, adaptable. He also found eight personality types: the entertaining, the brilliant, the culture-talented, the just, the pretty, the good fellow, the good neighbor, the diplomat...
...transcription was played with equal success at Liverpool, over B. B. C., and in Hollywood. Pressed for more information about the young man, Sir Henry added the following program note: "It is a pity that this young man has died. His early death robbed Russian music of a really brilliant recruit. His transcription shows the hand of a master in every bar." Last week Sir Henry admitted that Paul Klenovsky was an alias for an English musician. His name: Sir Henry Wood...
...Perry to five sets at Wimbledon and beat Crawford in the European Zone Davis Cup final. If Perry, the defending champion, plays through his field at Forest Hills and becomes the only foreigner except Lacoste to win the U. S. title twice, it will be one of the most brilliant chapters in one of the most extraordinary histories the game has ever known...
...sponged on acquaintances in England, Scotland, Wales, often on the point of starving, making enemies, running up debts, a "haggard, shabby, shy, priestly-visaged individual" with a bitter tongue, a growing obsession that there was a conspiracy against him. Attracted by his esoteric learning, his writings, his often brilliant conversation, people took him up, helped him, paid dearly...
Myles Lane, former Dartmouth All-American half-back is one of the new additions to the coaching staff. Backed by a brilliant sports record, which includes membership on the Boston Bruin Cubs professional hockey team, Lane will take over the duties of backfield coach...