Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Emperor Franz Josef flits through a large section of the book, together with many crowned and titled European celebrities and our own Roosevelt. At Ischl, Jeritza sang before the Emperor, in Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus. "How he applauded! In the second act I sang the very brilliant Czardas, with its fiery, passionate frischka dance close. When I ended the Emperor clapped and did not stop until I sang the number a second time. Then we-he and I-repeated the performance; he applauded and I sang. But when he insisted on my singing the Czardas a fourth time...
...intention to windlass the family fortune out of a miserly and almost?not quite?inhuman old uncle who has previously cheated her father and would apparently prefer to see her starve to death. It is in the midst of this undertaking, however, that accident opens a more brilliant prospect. The family of Helmut Mylius, a curio dealer, has been kept by him in a state of semi-starvation, shabbiness and sullen despair on the plea of extreme poverty. Ulrika discovers that Mylius is in reality a multi-millionaire who has kept his fortune secret out of his excessive miserliness...
...battle ensues between the wicked, but clever, and the good, but dumb, which concludes at the end of Part I with the defeat of Josephine. She is unable, in a world wholly full of rottenness and decay, to find her own feet; and Ulrika achieves her most brilliant success in marrying her off against her will to a clever and unscrupulous scoundrel who uses Josephine's millions to achieve a great position in a sham world...
...Theunis, the Governor of the Belgian Provinces, the members of the Diplomatic Corps, the Presidents and Vice Presidents of both Chambers, a pleiad of army generals, the Burgomasters of the chief cities of members of the Courts of Justice, the Rector of the University of Louvain, surrounded by a brilliant array of professors in caps and gowns-were all in the church when His Eminence, accompanied by his Suffragan Bishops and preceded by Monsignori, Cathedral Canons, superiors of religious orders and clergy, marched up the main aisle, between a double row of clerics wearing over their cassocks white surplices trimmed...
...little man, aged 33, English-born, pro at Englewood Golf Club, N. J., weighing but 118 pounds and equipped with the slenderest of wrists, had, by consistently brilliant play, polished off three of the four rounds in the U. S. Open Golf Championship at the uniform rate of 74 strokes per round? which in each case was two over the difficult...