Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thick head can do as much harm as a hard heart." He calls the Brain Trust "a sad commentary on our government." He thinks the New Deal, which had to draft its brains from college faculties and private business, has amply proved his thesis of the need for brilliant professional public servants in the U. S. He never tires of pointing at Great Britain's Civil Service tc show what he would do about it. The U. S. Civil Service has a similar rank & file of clerks and technicians, but nothing approaching the 1,500 career...
...University this week is the screen version of the play which won the Pulitzer Prize this year and is still playing in New York, "Men in White". Torn between conflicting obligations Dr. Furguson, played by Clark Gable, is faced with the problem of continuing what promises to be a brilliant career as a surgeon or "riding" to oblivion in a limousine" with the pretty face and figure of Myrna Loy at this side. Gable turns in an adequate performance and is decidedly better than he has been in some of his earlier pictures. Myrna Loy finds it difficult to register...
...acclaimed when he was 19 for a series of lithograph portraits of the Massachusetts Senate. His water colors fill an entire room of the Chicago show. There was many a Homer rendering of the thunderous waters of the Maine coast as well as a group of brilliant, placid Bahaman seascapes, faintly reminiscent of one of his most famed works The Gulf Stream, which hangs permanently at the Art Institute...
...sight from the time it was being drafted until it was safely past the conference committee. Lean, serious, energetic and extremely able, he was a full professor at the Harvard Law School at 29. A shining disciple of Justice Brandeis, he is regarded in Washington as the brilliant leader of the small minority of New Dealers who are true economic radicals. As chairman of the new Commission he would dominate its proceedings and make its administration a strict and stern affair for the stock trade...
Following this is a 27 line history of the class, starting with the modest promise that they--the Winsor girls, don't "feel that our history is anything starting or brilliant in its originality". For two years all seems to have gone nicely until in class III a few of the more daring spirits began to climb upon the ventilators. The next year matters went from bad to worse and they are frank to admit that "the whole class acemed to have awallowed a dexil." This was the year when "we piled all the chairs on our oaks and then...