Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wealth as the basis of human existence or should one go out into the wilds far from monetary cares amid the birds and fish and there look at one's soul. All this is quite apparent at the end of the second act, which by the way, is brilliant in spots and abounds in clever banter; there is, however, no real need of prolonging the third act with a reiteration of the case before staging the long anticipated ending. A shorter scene would perhaps have been more appropriate...
...careless, good-humored, who knows everybody, has seen every place, and is still amusing. Conway Tearle is the hardened man about town whose crusted cynicism almost dissolves under the influence of the love of Marguerite Churchill, who interprets the role of Paula Jordan. He gives one of the most brilliant performances as a during ever seen. Max Kane, who plays a minor star, gives a convincing impersonation of the stock go-between. Ann Andrews, who wears the clothes of Mrs. Oliver Jordan surprisingly well, does not measure up to the standard set by Judith Wood in the part of Kitty...
This encounter can hardly be compared with the brilliant spectacle of a few months later. Memorial Hall was crowded to capacity that winter night, for King Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, was inspecting Harvard and was the center of attention in the gay banquet in his honor...
...York's Reinhardt Galleries smelled of gardenias last week. There were a great many mink coats, and gentlemen carrying chamois gloves in their inverted bowlers. On the walls were brilliant, brittle portraits in flat, bright color of very smart people immaculately dressed, and decorative landscapes in which trees and houses were frankly drawn with ruler and compass. Bernard Boutet de Monvel was having his first New York exhibition in five years...
...trade and inclination, Lawrence (he has not yet written a book signed "Shaw") originally intended to be only an archeological author. One of the books which he has never found time to write was to prove that the dating of ancient pottery in England is all wrong. Though a brilliant, omnivorous student with an enormous and accurate memory, though he won Oxford's highest scholastic honor (a fellowship at All Souls), scholars would not call him a scholar. He wrote two-thirds of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, his history of the Arab revolt, at odd moments during the Peace Conference...