Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Root, the great master of logic, the brilliant mind; Depew, the master of eloquence, the brilliant tongue, sat there together, enjoying what has come to them as the rewards of their life work. Mr. Root has never so exactly put his reward in words as Mr. Depew once did when he said: "If I am known as an after-dinner speaker, I hope I am known also as a man who works. My dinners never have interfered with my business. They have been my recreation...
Premier Herriot, who with President Doumergue and the whole French Government, was present, eulogized the slain man, recalled his brilliant and famed oratory, his career, said: "Maternal France receives him lovingly in her Pantheon because he represented several of the highest qualities of her genius; because it was in being so profoundly French that he showed himself so widely human...
...Significance. This first part of St. Reymont's epic of the soil is "a panorama of the whole round of peasant life, a brilliant picture of Polish nature ... the tragic sense of the elemental forces which dominate the efforts of the tillers of the soil." The work is truly epic in its scope, a carefully worked, heroic pattern. It is a sweeping view of Poland, ground under the imperial heel of Russia...
...table of contents has nowhere near the magnetism of a striking hint, a single graphic stroke of advertising along a popular line. Depending on the elevation of the publisher's mind, this stroke will be "high" or "low"?something between popular religion or popular sex? a brilliant, mental contortion, or a vulgar, scandalizing distortion. Very, very seldom will the stroke be accurately indicative of the nature of the table of contents, or even of the nature of that feature in the table of contents which suggested the stroke...
...other hand, few men as brilliant and vivacious as Wickham Steed are not also imaginative...