Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gradually, the country began to realize that a prominent politician had died, that a brilliant actor had shuffled off the scene, that a fiery orator, a leader of great causes, a maker of great troubles had disappeared?that also, the status quo of which he was a part had come to an end, and politics was in the remaking...
...Week, brilliant at its best or at its worst, was doubly brilliant this year, for the King, as Visitor of Christ Church,* was on hand to celebrate the founding of that great College 400 years before by His Eminence Cardinal Wolsey. The "House," as Christ Church is always called, was naturally the cynosure; and, one night, after "Old Tom" had been tolled 101 times* a vast throng of women, some dressed in the best that Jay's and Liberty's could afford, others in the latest and most gorgeous and flimsy from Paris, began to enter under...
THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED ? Sandinavian virginity, slum bred, thrust into Italian vino-culture, and the upshot?brilliant acting...
Then there was a banquet, at which Teacher Scopes stammered a few embarrassed words and the important lawyers indulged in brilliant jocularities. Scopes left for Dayton, leaving his friends to allege that he had refused syndicate offers aggregating $150,000, had refused to be pointed out, as most celebrities long to be, to a Ziegfeld Follies audience by Cowboy Comedian Will Rogers...
...talent and devotion of distinguished lifetimes, giving homage to an ideal and receiving it in kind. It mattered not last week that Manhattan suffered from the most persistent heat wave of recent times. People gave up their roof gardens and their evening in the country to watch this brilliant assembly. John Drew, who shares with Mrs. Fiske the greatest honors of our Theatre, played through the whole week despite his advancing years, his failing sight-despite the temperature. The cheers that greeted him must have made it all worth while and more so. And the performance that he gave caused...