Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...superior intellect. Pope Pius XI has all the distinctive attributes of mind-scholarliness, intellectuality, intelligence. The doctorates he holds in philosophy, theology and canon law he earned. When he attended the Lombard College at Rome, he and his comrade Alessandro Lualdi (later cardinal) were rated the most brilliant. Because he reorganized the Ambrosian Library in Milan and made it really useful to scholars, his friend King Vittorio Emanuele made him a Knight of the Outer of Saints Maurice & Lazarus.† His Significance. In the long list of Popes, Pius IX (1846-78) ranked as a great dogmatist. Far more important...
...lecture on "Contemporary Literature in Italy." Averardi intends to deal particularly with the brilliant Italian dramatist. Luigi Pirandello, whose play, "Six Characters in Search of an Author" was very popular several years ago and who has several plays scheduled for the current theatrical season in New York...
...young wedded couple whom most other British editors were roasting alive: Sir Oswald and Lady Cynthia Mosley, both Socialist M. P.'s, she rich with the millions of her late, great father Marquess Curzon of Kedleston.* "Sir Oswald Mosley has taken his political life in his hands with brilliant fearlessness," wrote Editor Garvin. "He is the only leader of his generation who has the courage to strike out a new path." With 15 fellow M. P.'s including Oliver Baldwin (Socialist son of Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin), the Mosleys had just signed and published a purple manifesto. Declaring...
...crowing cock. Into fame the Pathe rooster crowed Harold Lloyd, Pearl White. In 1927 Pathe was reorganized, began to make feature pictures successfully on a small scale. Its principal assets were a library of film stories said to be the best in the business, and the services of three brilliant young actresses-Ann Harding, Constance Bennett, Helen Twelvetrees. Last week for $5,000,000 Radio-Keith-Orpheum, lusty and successful young cinema company sponsored by great Radio Corp. of America, bought "certain assets" of the Pathe company. These assets included the crowing cock trademark, the three actresses, the library. They...
...their home fields from teams from other parts of the U S. enervated by the sunny weather; 2) Notre Dame had won 18 straight games in two seasons, was thought to be tired. Instead, Knute Rockne's various prancing backfielders at once bewildered the over-rated Trojans with brilliant plays, throwing for losses Southern California's famed Plungers Plinckert and Duffield. Marchmont Schwartz flipped an 11-yd. pass to Quarterback Carideo who trotted eight yards farther for the first touchdown. They made three more after that. Their own goal was never in danger. Notre Dame 27, Southern California...