Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other years, the voices were unremarkable, the conducting was scholarly rather than inspired, the orchestration adequate rather than brilliant. As in other years, all who listened were impressed with the earnest intelligence of the performers, the remarkable community spirit that made the festival possible. Next day, Bach's famed Mass in B minor was given as a finale. Once again Bethlehem's choralists surmounted the immense technical difficulties of the score...
...hotels and restaurants not licensed by the Vice-Chancellor, "gating"* and fining for offenses. He wrote of the pitfall of idling that gapes for "men who lack pronounced will power and pertinacity." He wrote of Oxford's unwholesome, antisocial, velvet-suited, rose-carrying, pseudo-aesthetes, and of the brilliant, insincere, stimulating, dangerous-to-the-guileless-American Oxford conversationalists...
MacDonald Smith is one of the Smith Brothers. No bearded rapscallion he, seller of sugar-coated cough drops, but the most brilliant member of a famed golfing family, the Smiths: Alec, George, Jim, Willie,* MacDonald. Thirty, years ago, Alec, the eldest Smith, came to the U.S., was three times open runner-up, once champion, won 19 important championships between 1898 and 1914, had among his pupils Jerry Travers, Marion Hollins, Glenna Collett, Reggie Lewis. MacDonald, the youngest, was famed at 15, played extraordinary golf until, in 1914, he went to California, disappeared from competition. Recently, he returned. When playing...
When Owen Carroll ends this afternoon's game, he will have finished one of the most remarkable records ever enjoyed by a single athlete in competition against the Big Three. The Worcester leader has wound up his brilliant record, which includes his famous 1 to 0 loss in the duel with Caldwell two years ago, and the revenge he took in fourteen innings last year, by a brilliant success this year. He figured in two set-backs of the Blue, one of which he won himself when his two strike-outs and a triple gave the Holy Cross nine...
...year against such sterling opponents as Minary of Princeton, Marsh, number one of the Williams tennis team, Hink of Technology and Watson of Yale, captain of the 1927 Blue netmen last year. The match with Watson, which was decided in straight sets, 7-5, 6-4, was the most brilliant feature of the match at New Haven against the Bulldog...