Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...football team of 1911 also started out with brilliant prospects. "Bob" Fisher was Captain, and in him the team had all the confidence in the world. This year Harvard was to play Prince- ton for the first time since 1896, and the game was to be played three weeks before the Yale game. The early games went by quickly and were won by safe margins. It seemed but a day before the team left for Princeton...
Miss Booth has subordinated the plot to her concept of society and her brilliant lines, yet it contrives to be moving in spots. Mary Haines, happily married, learns of her husband's infidelity from a manicurist, but too many of her friends have their claws polished by the same girl. The story is out; it is enlarged and twisted until the unwilling wife fices to Reno, letting her husband marry Crystal, form the perfume counter at Saks. For two years she lives with her children in seclusion, brushing up on technique. Then one day Little Mary comes home from visiting...
...Chicago," and the result is a powerful, vivid, and entertaining picture. A tale of the Chicago in the roaring seventies, it is generously sprinkled with songs by the delectable Alice Faye and fist fights between Don Ameche and Tyrone Power; and with the great fire as a brilliant climax, Hollywood's latest excursion into the realm of spectacular catastrophe proves a great success...
...steal the show this year, it is a good show Gargantua has stolen. Brilliant with new costumes, electric with man-&-beast action on its three rings and two stages, the 1938 circus has, besides a full deck of routine, such new acts...
These and a string of greater & lesser scoops stretching back a generation have come to Vladimir Poliakoff because he is a brilliant, self-assured, courteous Russian-Jewish gentleman who has ingratiated himself with the most impeccable diplomatic connections in Europe. His recipe: "Know your man ten years before you need him; give more than you take." In London he has profited recently by being thick with the Italian Embassy, perhaps partly because he strikingly resembles a jesting Mussolini. But he is suing the London Daily Worker for criminal libel because it said he was a liaison man in the British...