Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leonard Sillman) is the Pulitzer Prize play that made the late Sidney Howard famous. After 15 years it seems (like rooms and houses not seen since childhood) much smaller than memory suggested. It still has fresh and human qualities and a wise moral, but clearly it was the brilliant acting of Pauline Lord, Richard Bennett and Glenn Anders that gave it its original gloss...
Before last week's World Series many a baseball fan, particularly in Cincinnati, thought the Reds had a chance to beat the Yankees. For precedent they pointed to 1914. In that brave year the Boston Braves, depending almost entirely on two brilliant pitchers (just as the Reds did this year), trounced the walloping Philadelphia Athletics, rated-with their hundred-thousand-dollar infield-the greatest team in major-league history (just as the Yankees are today). Such wishful fans cited the fact that, out of 34 World Series, 13 had been nabbed with just two pitchers winning the necessary four...
...budget autocrat, that he used a slide-rule formula in dealing out money to the various departments. Students grumbled because they believed Dr. Conant was bent on getting crack research men instead of crack teachers, because he hired big-name scholars at fancy salaries while he let brilliant young instructors of undergraduates go. Harvardmen began to think that Chemist Conant was more adept at test-tube work than at human equations...
...great production man." That night at Detroit "K. T." had stayed close to the phone and when Walter Chrysler called from New York ("We've bought the Dodge-put up your signs") he knew what to do. Within a year he was president of Dodge and his brilliant production methods, stemming from the machine-shop where he had worked as a horny-handed mechanic, were driving Chrysler spectacularly into then motor's Big Three...
...winter concert season is formally opened this week with the beginning of the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Friday and Saturday series. These concerts and the Sanders Theatre series, which will begin this year on October 19, are so important to us that this largest and most brilliant of the organizations who contribute to our music in Cambridge sometimes eclipses the numerous smaller groups whose activities are by no means unimportant...