Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...politicians were still debating his successor last week. The tourist's first, most vivid impressions of Bermuda are white roofs and bicycles. Bermudian houses, particularly the newer ones, are pink, white, green, yellow, blue, but their roofs, even those on the Anglican Cathedral at Hamilton are uniformly of brilliant white limestone coral. Reason: there are no potable wells on the islands; all drinking water is rain water, collected in cisterns from the unpainted roofs. Fortunately it rains nearly every day or night. Roads are white, too, for the islands are made of the white coral. Above the coral foundation...
...ring. While the trial was still in progress. Paramount removed Miss Bow from the cast of City Streets in which she was to star with Gary Cooper. Said Chief Studio Executive B. P. Schulberg: "She has been under severe nervous strain . . must have a rest. . . ." Beau Ideal (Radio ) . Photographically brilliant, but hindered by dreadful dialog and a silly story, this sequel to Capt. Percival Christopher Wren's Beau Geste is weak stuff in spite of the care that has been wasted staging it. Lester Vail joins the Foreign Legion to find Ralph Forbes and bring him back to Loretta...
...first chukker. Jenkins made two goals while Gerry accounted for one. But outside of this spurt in the opening chukker the Crimson trio was not up to its usual good team work and brilliant individual plays that have featured its previous contests Captain Gerry was plainly not playing the excellent polo of which he is capable...
...Anita, 1921 debutante; wife of Robert Littell, able, brilliant critic of the New York World...
...hoopsters broke away from their opponents early in the game, with a lead of 8-6, and steadily increased their advantage until at the half-time the count stood at 23 to 10. The second period was a rout, with the Crimson players submerging the Pennsylvania team by brilliant passing and accurate caging of their shots...