Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Death came to Leon Bakst, famed Russian: stage-designer, painter. He died, after a long illness, in Paris where he had spent the last 18 years of his life. While adept in formal painting, he won his greatest fame with his scenic and costume designs for many brilliant ballets produced in France, Russia, England...
...haughty man of the hour turns his back on the bull, receives his sword and muleta (a brilliant scarlet cloth hung from a short stick) and addresses himself to the president of the fight. He asks permission to commit tauricide and, that received, next dedicates the animal to a portion of the arena, or to a lady, or to a wealthy patron, by tossing his hat into the stand. When the hat comes back, its owner is confident of finding therein some costly gift...
...University scored in the second period when Pratt, who played the entire game, passed the puck to Austin, allowing him to score a goal. In the last period Hodder sent the puck into the Canadian net after a brilliant individual dash down...
...constant danger to the visiting defense men. The problem of a tight defense seems to be solved although Chase and Hammond are not ready to play yet. Pratt and Ellison proved themselves capable of withstanding almost any attack, and the work of Cummings in the goal was brilliant. As a whole the team showed the spirit and the fight necessary to make a championship team. The reserve men failed to slow up the team play and proved capable understudies to the regulars...
...rocketed into Chicago, impelled by a desire to write. Glutted with his boyhood, gorged with reading, he feasted immoderate- ly on the profuse externals of the city. As he fed, self-consciousness awoke and introspection tickled and whetted his emotional appetites. These he celebrated with loose living and brilliant adjectival bombinations, in print and conversation. As he became conscious of the Winkelbergs, their repulsiveness deepened his subjectivity into fiercer and fiercer hunger for experience, a hunger that consumed life and fed, most gruesomely, upon itself. When he married Stella Winkelberg it was largely to inflict a wound upon the body...