Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Garvin, brilliant editor of The Observer, a Sunday paper, as a comment upon the journalistic giants, said: " Behind the scenes there are some personal issues, even more satirical than the electioneering terms of the fiscal controversy. The ex-Premier has said no word to estrange the press trusts under his friends, Lords Gatherem and Botherem. Though nominally economists, they aspire mightily to rule the land and to crab Mr. Baldwin because they hope that Mr. Lloyd George at the head of a queerer coalition will yet be their man. That may easily become an issue...
...unfavorably with those magnificent of a former day, Disraeli and Gladstone, are, for the most part, incapacitated by the Victorianism of their training for the efficient management of the modern world. The crop of discord, war, hate, and international rivalry which the ill-timed pacifism of Gladstone and the brilliant but wholly unmoral opportunism of Disraeli sowed has come to fruition, but the great Victorians failed to leave a generation capable of dealing with this dread harvest. Instead, they left a group of statesmen trained to govern a Victorian World, men stable financially, economically, and politically, but wholly incapable...
OPEN ALL NIGHT-Paul Morand- Seltzer ($2.00). A brilliant, sardonic mind vivisects post-War Europe with the knives of irony and folly. Five adventures, five nights- Catalonian, Turkish, Roman, Parisian, Hungarian-five exotically unexpected women and their dealings with a cochon international. The distorted and rapid scene of modern life is seen as if under the concentrated and sudden light of successive explosions of flashlight-powder; incredible life-histories are compressed into a few pages. Morand is one of the most individual of modern French writers and this is the first American translation of his work-a translation, which...
...following week Yale found itself and trounced the Bear 21 to 0. It was in this game, against a strong opposing team, that the Yale attack was first let loose and proved to be all that could be desired. No less than six Blue backs stood out as brilliant ball carriers and the wealth of material at New Haven was even more apparent when substitutes sent in proved almost as strong as the men they replaced...
...Harvard season has been marked by the team's extraordinarily slow development and by its lack of scoring ability. In its later games the line has shown encouraging improvement and brilliant defensive work. At no time on the other hand, has the backfield really come up to the mark and to date no sustained attack has been forthcoming...