Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...humor and he employed it in his play Rebound. Less successful in Manhattan than either of Author Barry's comedies, it was purchased for the cinema by RKO as a vehicle for cinemactress Ann Harding. Ina Claire got the role instead after dazzling cinema producers with a brilliant performance in Rebound on the Los Angeles stage...
...have had a hard time keeping things straight for the last three or four years. Before that, William Tatem Tilden II and William Johnston were the two great U. S. players. A grade below were other famous names, easily distinguishable from each other-Richard Norris Williams II, the most brilliant half-volleyer in history, Wallace Johnson, a sporting-goods salesman who seemed always trying to compensate for his plebeian occupation by the languidly patrician gestures of his chop-strokes, Vincent Richards, who remained almost perpetually the boy wonder of U. S. tennis. When Johnston retired, Richards turned professional, Williams grew...
...semi-finals were reached, Shields and Wood were the only Americans left in the tournament. Their opponents, respectively, were Jean Borotra, who had made Queen Mary laugh by returning a volley while sitting on his haunches, and England's Frederick J. Perry, who, playing an erratic but brilliant game, had eliminated John Van Ryn in the fifth round...
...calmly, almost gaily. His illustration showed Socrates reaching for a cup of hemlock with one hand and pointing toward an ungracious sky with the other, while eight of his disciples, in attitudes of profound dejection, surrounded the couch on which he had composed himself for his final and most brilliant argument. A picture which, to an age which worshipped stoicism, had the emotional value of a Crucifixion, it achieved, like most of Painter David's works, immense success when it was first shown at the Paris Salon, later in the gallery of a M. de Trudaine who had commissioned...
...figures on Richfield. Last week Commissioner Haight, after an eight-month investigation, revealed that Richfield has a $54,000,000 deficit. More sensational was his statement that there are "strong indications" that the records had been falsified. And even more sensational was his assertion that Outstander Talbot and the "brilliant" Mr. Fuller had used the company's money to pay their sons' expenses, to clothe and bejewel their wives, to keep their yachts in order, and to pay club dues...