Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Curtain Cord. While Germans rejoiced at their Government's declaration, there developed out of the affair, a notable scandal at the famed Film and Stage Supper Club, Berlin. The Marchesa Gabriele di Serra Mantschedda entered with two Italian actors and her sister, Maria Orska, the famed and darkly brilliant Russo-Polish actress, long popular in Berlin. While habitues whispered that the Marchesa's Italian husband had recently deserted her and that she was acting as her sister's business manager, she arose, strolled over to the orchestra and tipped the leader heavily to play an Italian Fascist song. Stepping from...
...loser flashed into brilliant form in the second game, which he won decisively and in the third contest, which the title holder captured only after a bitter deuce struggle. Wright fought stubbornly for every point in this game, making almost impossible gets on several occasions to save points...
...flash, put the first-year skaters in the lead against Newton, when he found the net before the end of the first session after taking a pass from Whiting. The disc failed to clear the ice but slipped through the guard of Thompson, Newton cage guardian. Holbrook, the brilliant leader of the schoolboys, who was forced out of the game for a few minutes in the initial period with a cut on the hand, contributed several long dashes and narrowly missed two hard drives at the Crimson cage...
...with J. R. Remick '29, at back, and B. P, Gibb '29, and J. P. Cotton '29, as number one and two respectively The Freshmen suffered a reverse at the hands of the 51st. Artillery Brigade horsemen in their first match two weeks ago but displaced flashes of brilliant polo...
...adage has not yet been proved false that the best method of education is to sit at the feet of the wise. And young tutors, whatever else they may be, are rarely wise in the old meaning of the word. A young tutor may be scholarly. He may be brilliant. He may have that fine enthusiasm which dazzles and captivates. But he lacks experience, the experience which comes from long contact with the world, and which mellows knowledge into wisdom...