Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Snowden's charges and resignation might have been ignored last week, had not the Cabinet's orthodox Liberal pontiff, Sir Herbert Samuel, simultaneously resigned as Home Secretary, together with nine other Government Liberals. These ranged from stuffy Sir Archibald Sinclair who resigned as Secretary of State for Scotland, to brilliant Lord Lothian (the onetime Philip Kerr) who as Under-Secretary of State for India has been the Cabinet's brains in that quarter. (So indispensable was Lord Lothian found to be at the India Office last week that he was persuaded to continue his work informally, though resigned...
...Prince's paramours, Miss Cowl, with her maid, Marion Evensen; come together in a deserted country inn. Here, in the character and psychology of each, the audience witnesses the clash of the two philosophies of equality and nobility, modified by the individual class and age. It is a brilliant thought, the depicting of this struggle, but perhaps too difficult for a play that is to be acted rather than read. It gives the actors few opportunities for easily won applause. Despite the many curtain calls, the company now at the Plymouth cannot be said to have realized the possibilities...
...Wildcats would be feeling much more contented today if Crickard was out of the Harvard backfield, for last year that player broke loose time and again on brilliant runs through the entire New Hampshire team, which was quite unable to stop...
...first round Somerville had the edge 1 up. He increased his lead to 2 up in the first two holes of the afternoon, then went ragged. On the 24th Somerville chipped poorly, took two futile putts, finally conceded a 7 to Goodman's cool if not brilliant 5, making it all even. Taking the 25th and 27th (with a birdie 2 to Somerville's 4) Goodman made it 2 up and seemed ready to carry the title back to Omaha...
...sport but a tragedy, in which the matador is the literal hero. "Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor." For a matador can fake brilliant passes, can even fool certain sections of the audience into thinking he is taking desperate chances when he is perfectly safe...