Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dons of all persuasions, Monsignor Knox furnishes, between dialogues, imaginary documentation of his characters, some of it in the form of brilliant literary parodies. Best known of the authors whose style he imitates to a comma are James Boswell, Harold Nicolson...
Never disparaged was Gouverneur Morris' earlier record. He was spokesman at 26 for Washington at the Continental Congress; brilliant assistant to the "financier of the Revolution," Robert Morris (no kin); leading framer and "stylist" of the Constitution; first U. S. minister to France. But his name has come down as the "notorious aristocrat" who intrigued with Louis XVI against the French Revolution; who deliberately let his archenemy, Tom Paine, rot in Luxembourg Prison; who speculated in U. S. lands, wheat, tobacco, the public debt...
...first stages of high school, the students are a great mystery. It's rumored about that the students are "awfully rich, and Hegbert's father, yes, they always have wonderful names, is the mayor of Slingtown or president of a bank," and that they must be "powerfully" brilliant to get into Harvard...
...HAVEN, Conn., March 17--There was brilliant swimming to be seen here in Payne Whitney Pool this evening as the top tankmen of the East gathered to compete in the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League individual championships...
Danny Endweiss, Yale's brilliant 130-point diver, is still out with an appendix operation; Ed Gibson, Navy leaper who has also cracked 130, is unable to enter, and Army's Crandall, another crackerjack diver, probably will not be able to compete. Thus, Rusty has the best chance, of the Harvard delegation, of bringing home the bacon...