Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congressman, and Fred Bucholz, Washington's jolly restaurateur (Occidental Hotel). In Washington's formal society, he has little part. Impartial observers rate him thus: a pretty good" Congressman, personally popular with his colleagues, active in House affairs, attentive to his district's wants. Neither profound nor brilliant he performed national service by his hard-hitting advocacy of Reapportionment. Though he is now serving his sixth term. 1 old title of "baby" handicaps him in advancing toward real leadership...
...Philadelphia last week. Several of the twelve were ex-champions but the pool addicts who watched them, banked closely under the shaded lamps of Allinger's Billiard Academy, knew that only two had a real chance. They were Erwin Rudolph, onetime Cleveland office boy, a reckless and brilliant player who won last year; and tall, slick-haired Ralph Greenleaf, the handsomest indoor athlete in the U.S., who started to play billiards in Monmouth, Ill., when he was seven, became city champion at twelve, finished fourth in his first world's championship four years later...
...first emerged as a political figure in Catholic, reactionary Munich. Small, sparse Adolf Hitler with the little mustache and the great, rasping voice had gained the moral and financial support of General Erich Ludendorff, once Germany's most brilliant commander, already beginning to suffer from the delusions that led him to take up alchemy and the worship of Woden. In Munich the Hitler Brown Shirts first appeared; the Hitler symbol, the ancient swastika; and the Hitler doctrine which included disfranchising Jews, repudiation of the Treaty of Versailles and Reparations; death to all Communists, and the abolition of department stores...
...cards for the Culbertsons, even with a brilliant victory in the 28th rubber, left Lenz & Jacoby 5,650 points ahead. Ely Culbertson refused a $250 bet offered by Mr. Lenz for a friend...
...simultaneous expression of a crying necessity by two men so well qualified to discover what is wrong with representative government make it imperative that the whole format be altered. Bold-face headlines by Hearst, brilliant quips by the staff of Time and of the New Yorker, light talks by Bruce Barton, and sketches by Peter Arno would all help put the "Record" on the newsstands. And finally a Dorothy Dix column would minister to the heart of gold that beats beneath the rough senatorial exterior...