Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first this young woman (a music teacher) is gauche, inept, stumbling amid polished floors and brilliant conversation. Astonishingly she sprouts wings. One talk with an aesthetic artist, and she decides to liberate her soul with a thump on the keyboard. She tosses off her inhibitions and a Chopin scherzo simultaneously. Result?she walks off with the fascinated Willie from under the very nose of a voluptuous vampire. It is a tribute to the power of ten-finger exercises...
Since starting on its trip, Georgia has found little difficulty in trouncing Virginia and Maryland twice each. Playing Maryland on Maryland's home grounds yesterday and here today is a long jump, and unless the weather-man relents the tired Southerners will have still another handicap. Even so, their brilliant record makes them a favorite over the Crimson...
Colonel Winship has a brilliant war record, going to France shortly after the declaration of war, serving on General Pershing's Staff, and subsequently commanding two different regiments in major engagements. He was wounded in action, and decorated with the D. S. C. for gallantry. He has also been awarded the D. S. M. for exceptional meritorious and conspicuous service during the World War. Assigned to duty as a member of the Reparations Commission after the war, he returned to the United States last December after seven years abroad and given the important assignment which he now holds...
...collection of Irish short stories appearing this Spring, The Callahans and the Murphys. She started life as a newspaper woman; there is much of her more intimate story, I fancy, in her most ambitious recent work Certain People of Importance. She is unlike her husband and his brilliant brother, the late Frank Norris, for she is incurably romantic. In her drabbest pages of realism- and there are not many of them- she maintains the values of sentiment and emotion. Her husband, however, writes with unusual objectivity. He proceeds on a character-basis he believes true and he is faithful...
...next Metropolitan season will be brilliant, according to details of Maestro Gatti-Casazza's present plans...