Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Provincetown, Mass, in 1899. At that time Provincetown was a fishing village inhabited largely by Portuguese. A Chicago visitor said that Provincetown ladies decorated their hats with mackerel gills and swept their floors with halibut fins. But to Hawthorne, Provincetown's great natural resource was its summer light- brilliant and untempered, making houses, sand and wharves blaze against their backgrounds. In an old sail loft he established an art school. Before his death in 1930 it attracted 125 students each summer; Provincetown was more famous as an art colony than it had ever been as a fishing village...
...brilliant, literary President Manuel Azana, statesman-reformer, there has been the anonymous life of a figurehead. This week he emerged to make a radio address. For more than a year, a Socialist physician, Dr. Juan Negrin, educated in Germany, a fluent linguist, frequenter of Madrid's swankiest cafés, has ruled Leftist Spain, his decrees being subject to periodic scrutiny by an obedient, peripatetic Cortes...
Colonel Beck flew from Warsaw to talk this over last week with the Foreign Minister of Latvia, brilliant young Vilhelms Munters, who emerged as a leading small-power statesman when he recently chair-manned the League Advisory Committee on the Far East. En route to Latvia, Colonel Beck created a great Baltic stir by becoming the first Polish Cabinet Minister ever to set foot on Lithuania's soil. On July 1 normal railway service was restored between Poland and Lithuania after a lapse of 18 years during which these two nations, created after the World War, had remained quarreling...
Last week the augurs of Manhattan's Wall and Broad Streets, weary of watching for omens on ticker tapes, turned to their windows to see the propitious flight of a rare and happily named bird-a Bird of Paradise. The brilliant yellow, green, and red-brown bird had escaped from Paramount Aquarium Inc. (a downtown animal, bird and fish importing concern), winged its way over the financial district to 15 Broad Street, was finally captured at high noon...
...these, Eileen's role is slight: she is pretty, pursued by boys and at 13 the belle of the Epworth League, the sensation of the eighth grade. Ruth, however, with her stutter, her ability to play baseball, the social ostracism that followed her brilliant performance in the Northern Ohio Debating League, was cut out for trouble. Not entirely given over to girlish recollections, My Sister Eileen is weakest when it approaches slapstick, as in accounts of Father McKenney's washing-machine business; funniest when Author McKenney recalls the simpler sides of old Ohio life-newspaper serials, silent movies...