Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Here Today. Good friend of Authoress Dorothy Parker is her publisher, George Oppenheimer (The Viking Press). Deciding to write a play, Publisher Oppenheimer wondered what would happen if a person whose life is devoted to being brilliant were thrown into a houseful of Boston socialites. His answer is highly amusing to almost everyone but the socialites. Mary Hilliard (Ruth Gordon) is bizarre, witty, peripatetic, alcoholic. When they get drunk she and her friend Stanley Dale (Charles D. Brown) go travelling. Once they went to Siam. This time they go to Nassau, where Mary Hilliard's one-time husband, Philip...
...Leningrad this system has already been applied to several streets. Last year buildings on both sides of the Nevski Prospect (No. 1 Tsarist boulevard) were painted. The former palace of Grand Duke Dmitri* was daubed brilliant red with glaring white trim. Leningrad's central ticket office was repainted three times in different color schemes until the Soviet was satisfied that it is "right." Civic gangs of plumbers and carpenters trailed after the painters, fixing people's water faucets, floors, roofs at inconvenient times with maximum gusto...
...restrictions of the West. Hundreds of thousands of Japanese believe that rich, undeveloped Manchuria is their only hope of salvation. When Count Uchida was born, what Japan is doing now would not have excited protest. When Count Uchida was nine years old, the Prime Minister of Britain was a brilliant, dapper Jew, Benjamin Disraeli, later Earl of Beaconsfield, who preached exactly the same sort of utilitarian imperialism, made his Queen Empress of India, bought the Suez Canal to develop Britain's oriental trade and to protect her Manchoukuo: Egypt. Disraeli was just as convinced as any Japanese today that...
Never has a U. S. aviation meet had such brilliant prospects as the National Air Races which opened at Cleveland Municipal Airport last week; and rarely has one been cursed by so inauspicious an opening...
Junior Kudos. The Langmuir $1,000 prize for the stimulus of brilliant young chemists went to Dr. Oscar Knefler Rice, 29, son of an immigrant Viennese scientist, Harvard instructor, a prodigy in the application of higher mathematics to the problems of atomic and molecular physics...