Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although he was haggard, his eyes bloodshot, Mattern permitted himself only a two-hour nap at Moscow. He worked over his plane slowly and painstakingly with Soviet mechanics under brilliant ground-flares, and had increased his lead to five hours when, shortly after midnight (third day) he whipped out of Moscow into the eastern moonlight. However his time across the Urals to Omsk was comparatively slow and he lost a considerable part of his lead. Then, apparently deciding to content himself with an unprecedented solo performance regardless of beating Post & Gatty, he rested in Omsk (where the others...
...Arnold Bennett's Journal (a selection from the million-word record he kept from 1896 till shortly before his death) brings to a close one of the liveliest diaries ever written. Arnold Bennett, like the great Sam Johnson, was that rare and peculiarly English product, the apotheosis of brilliant common sense. Unlike Sam Johnson, Bennett was naturally energetic, ambitious, insatiably curious, versatile. Life had an appetizing savor to him; he lived it and wrote about it with zest. Coincident with this third volume of the Journal the Viking Press publishes a one-volume edition ($5), which the Literary Guild...
...others were receiving diplomas at the hands of Chancellor Hill of the University of Georgia. First called, honor student, Samuel H. Sibley, now Justice of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, New Orleans. Says the Chancellor: "Sam, you are a brilliant, fine boy, etc, and I predict a life of great achievement for you. I'm proud, etc. etc." Next, alphabetically next. Gene Black. The Chancellor hesitated, looked at Gene, tried to begin, hesitated, hummed, then gave up and said "God bless you Gene...
...late Dwight Morrow, and George Whitney who handles much of the firm's stock exchange business. Recent acquisitions are Harold Stanley, public utility expert, obtained from Manhattan's Guaranty Co. when Morgan & Co. plunged into utility financing, and S. Parker Gilbert, first famed as a brilliant young Treasury aid to Secretary Mellon. At the age of 30 he went with his bride to Europe to manage reparations. Returning, an expert on public and international finance, he lounged on the beaches of Hawaii for a few months before sinking himself in the depression problems of a Morgan partnership...
...form in none the less powerful. Because it deals with a type of character usually avoided by the movies and because the author has attempted realism instead of melodramas, "Christopher Strong" may not provoke the popularity of a more blatant production. Katharine Hepburn, nevertheless, remains a starting and brilliant figure. With the aid of Colin Clive she succeeds in making "Christopher Strong" a fine piece of work...