Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University players failed to evince the same speed and accuracy that they had demonstrated against Princeton on Saturday. In the singles Captain Ingraham proved an easy victim to Captain Jones' brilliant stroking game. Ingraham rushed up to the net time and time again, trying to anticipate the shots of his opponent but only succeeded in succumbing helplessly to Jones' well-placed alley drives...
Whitbeck provided the most brilliant exhibition of the afternoon when he defeated Watson captain of last year's freshman team, in two straight sets...
...doing this, but he did not develop a very consistent or convincing character. Jessamine Newcombe portrayed the imperial Catherine, lovely, regal, and almost barbaric enough, while Mr. Hulse was a glorious drunken chancellor whom G. B. S. very kindly provided with lines sufficiently scintillating to inspire anyone to a brilliant performance...
...Massey was a strong admirer of President Coolidge. They met in 1923 at Washington. He was also an admirer of Abraham Lincoln, many of whose speeches, particularly his Gettysburg address, he had committed to memory. He was noted in New Zealand for his extraordinary courage, his able, if not brilliant, leadership. It was largely through him that the present Reform Party, which has a relative majority over the other parties, survived its earlier vicissitudes. He was a convinced imperialist-the man who urged the Allies to deprive Germany of the Samoa Islands, whose voice was loud in the councils...
...British capital in Texas and more to come), her rich enterprises in cotton, oil, beef. Had royalty been expected in town, Houston could have bibbed and tuckered herself no more gaudily than she did last week. The streets were fringed with clouds of bunting by day and streams of brilliant bulbs by night. Hotel lobbies babbled greeting from a thousand bulletin boards, ten thousand posters. No automobile but had its "Welcome!" pennants. No public official but had furbished up his funny stories and tucked a speech into his coat against an emergency...