Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...atmosphere which Director von Sternberg cleverly built up through the slow beginning of the picture and the brilliant photographic effects achieved by his camera man, Lee Garmes, have effect of giving this melodramatic cliché a reality which it could not possibly achieve in a medium less persuasive than the cinema. Because the cars, the engines, the soldiers, the flags and noises of cities through which the Shanghai express passes are thoroughly realistic, the villainies of Mr. Chang and even the curiously elaborate speeches written for Clive Brook seem real also. Miss Dietrich's legs are not so evident...
Cram has said of him: "I can honestly say that as an abstract type of genius Wright Goodhue was the most brilliant man I have ever known. His ability in the line of stained glass was remarkable. I think Goodhue ranked next to Aubrey Beardsley in keenness and distinction. Being a great genius he was naturally erratic in certain directions with a profound conviction that he must work along the lines that in his opinion were right. He seemed to me to be a reincarnation in modern times of some spirit out of the Middle Ages. His difficulty was that...
...Blue started off the season with a brilliant series of victories, but the loss of team-work and the absence of Iglehart from the post-holiday line-up shattered the team's power so that the present record stands at seven won and seven lost. Most significant victories on the Eli schedule have been those over Army, Dartmouth, and the Boston Hockey Club. Other victories were at the expense of St. Nicholas, Melrose Hockey Club, and Boston University. Yale has lost to Clarkson, Crescent A. C., Metropolitan, Princeton and Toronto. The last two teams were defeated by Harvard...
Reports of yesterday from the Harvard College Observatory state that on Wednesday evening close observations were made on a very brilliant blue-green meteor. Somewhat resembling a fireball, this celestial nomad floated very slowly down the southeastern sky at an angle of 45 degrees...
...universities for a century. At the ending of the second century since his death, the Harvard Department of Germanic languages and literatures as well as the Visiting Committee on German have further kept his memory alive by arranging four public evening lectures at Sanders Theater. Professor Eugen Kuhnemann, brilliant lecturer of the University of Breslau has already commanded two of such meetings. Dr. Gerhart Hauptmann and Professor Bliss Perry, Emeritus, will deliver the two remaining lectures on March fourth and March twenty-second respectively...