Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...author of these stories was a brilliant Irishman born of English parents. Although a high-ranking clergyman, he had no scruples about expressing his opinions in the most vigorous style. He did not like the predatory practices of English land-owners in Ireland. So he penned "A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Ireland from Being a Burden to their Parents or Country" in which he calmly unfolded a grotesque scheme whereby delectable one-year-old youngsters be sold for food--to be "Stewed, Roasted, Baked, or Boiled." He grew tired of the endless predictions of a well-known...
...Midtown Galleries just two years later than it had been scheduled. Reason: two summers ago his summer place in New Jersey burned to the ground and ten years' work burned with it. The Shulkin mettle was proved in several smooth, strong, pleasant figure compositions notable for harmonizing brilliant colors without making them yell...
First to be found was courageous, charming, young William Henry Welch, who became professor of pathology. Dr. Welch brought in William Osler, a Canadian then practicing in Philadelphia, and William Stewart Halsted as professors of medicine and surgery. Osler, in turn, asked a brilliant young surgeon, Howard Atwood Kelly, to be professor of gynecology...
...gives a remarkably sympathetic characterization of Russian intellectuals and professionals; he writes exciting, if confused, narrative; even achieves some of the massive tediouness of the Russian novelists. But where the Russians succeeded best-in portraying the Russian peasantry who shaped the character of the Revolution-Author Hutchinson fails: the brilliant Russian surface of Testament cracks open to reveal dim, confused sketches of the real thing, a novel that at the core is English after...
...religion has the right to hold forth in morning chapel. But too often aptitude for religious expression and profundity of religious thought do not accompany mere interest in the subject. Approaching the same problem from a different point of view, there are faculty members whose chapel talks are brilliant; Professors Mather, Munn and Hopper are in this category. Because of the supposed necessity for giving time to their less capable colleagues, these men are seldom seen, and the influence they might have in the popularization of chapel is correspondingly weak. But regardless of Faculty etiquette this type, and this type...