Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fattening on the income from rich abbeys and priories; how Mary, the little prisoner queen of Scotland, addressed him from her dungeon; how Tasso, poet of Italy, consulted him on this and that matter of technique? With most of the other frills and furbelows of his day, priceless and brilliant though they were, Poet Pierre is all but forgotten save by those French folk who make it their business to keep alive the glory that was Gaul and the grandeur of early French letters...
...olden times?when Alexander Hamilton penned its editorials, when William Cullen Bryant purified its diction, and later, when E. L. Godkin and Carl Schurz were its brilliant "fighting" editors?the Post had a grand manner more than once...
...GUARDSMAN?Luxurious nonsense about a great actor sheep who arrayed himself in seducer wolf's disguise to test his wife's fidelity. Molnar's play, Theatre Guild production, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in the brilliant leads...
...poet the hero of the performance. As played by Richard Bird, a young Englishman who came with Havoc (TIME, Sept. 15), even the customarily brilliant performance of Katherine Cornell was slightly shaded in comparison. Miss Eames, Mr. de Cordoba and Mr. Cossart completed one of the soundest and most dextrous casts it is the playgoer's fair fortune to contemplate...
...work of Baldwin and Slocum, the 1928 forwards, was particularly brilliant. The latter was the high scorer with six field goals and one free throw, but both were very clever in handling and passing the ball. At times the team work of the freshman quintet seemed to go to places. Slocum especially had a tendency to forget the rest of the team and play for himself. But these rough spots always crop out in early season games, and will undoubtedly be smoothed over before the regular schedule starts on January...