Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work of Cottle, Allen, Failing, Cutler, Lindley and Pond restored the optimism that the linesmen removed. Cottle had a terrific work-out against Georgia, and stood up under the test with extraordinary ability and results. Few people realize that Yale's touchdown was due almost entirely to his brilliant playing. It was not spectacular in that there were no length of the field runs but when one player can hit a line as heavy as Georgia's, carrying the ball himself in eleven out of thirteen plays, and in those plays, bringing the pigskin from one end of the field...
...studied in childhood magnificently recreated in the stately personages of Calhoun, Clay, Webster, John Quincy Adams and Dolly Madison without delight. So dextrous was the play in setting, character and costume that it stirred unmistakable delight throughout the audience. If the play's incident was mild, its brilliant qualities of pageantry more than erased the difference...
CONSCIENCE-A patchy parable of jail and prostitution rising to excellence with the performance of a brilliant novice, Lillian Foster...
MacDonald, however, was not a man to give up hope, and with brilliant statesmanship he was able to stem the tide of criticism with his accomplishment in other foreign fields. He brought Great Britain and France together, he put the Dawes plan into execution, and he was a moving power in the recent Geneva Conference which adopted the protocol of arbitration and international...
...judged purely from these facts. Captain Klevenow, Papke, and Hollquist all established a dangerous reputation in their 1923 Stadium performance. The fourth member of the Vermont quartet, Lobo, was out of most of last year's games on account of an early season injury. Critics acclaim him a brilliant ballcarrier and expect him to give trouble to the Harvard forwards...