Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brilliant new star in the perfume world . . . to wear it is to be-Divine...
...cannot pretend to feel impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns...
...German Generals Talk, by British Captain B. H. Liddell Hart. Both concluded that the German army's biggest handicap in the field was Adolf Hitler's personal direction of the war. Of special interest and excellent of their kind were A. D. Divine's Dunkirk, a brilliant recording of the cross-Channel rescue of Britain's beaten army in 1940, and Memoirs of a Secret Agent of Free France by Remy (Gilbert Renault), the most exciting story of espionage in World...
Died. Dr. Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr, 54, South Africa's brilliant longtime Minister of Finance and Education, onetime Deputy Prime Minister and able lieutenant to Field Marshal Smuts; constant advocate of improved conditions for Negroes; of coronary thrombosis; in Johannesburg...
...story of U.S. literature-from Cotton Mather's desire to "fill this Countrey with devout and useful Books" written by himself to a description of how Gone With the Wind was garbled in Japanese. Only occasionally slipping into literary jargon, the authors have written short essays-a few brilliant, the rest solidly competent-that are good introductions for the ordinary reader, and quick once-overs for lazy students...