Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dwight W. Morrow was a classmate of President Coolidge at Amherst (1895). He then attended Columbia Law School, made a brilliant record as a student, was honored with selection to the editorial board of the Columbia Law Review, and, after a varied but uniformly notable career in private practice, became a member of the banking firm of J. P. Morgan...
Middlebury outclassed to University of New Hampshire team 21-0; Tufts, in a game livened by the running of its brilliant quarterback, Carl Etleman, overcame Lowell Textile, 25-0 and Brown stepped heavily on Haverford in its 34-0 victory...
...admitted, however, that he had charged Eckartsau with "wilfully sabotaging" settlement of the Habsburg estates. Empress Elizabeth, daughter of Duke Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria, became the consort of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria in 1854. Empress Elizabeth was a great sportswoman; she was beautiful; moreover she had the brilliant intelligence of a Wittelsbach. From her arrival in Vienna she unwittingly offended Viennese society because she rode horseback, because she tried to simplify court etiquette, and lastly, because she had voiced an unerring predilection for Hungary and the Hungarians-a heinous offense in Austrian eyes. It was largely through the Empress...
...sudden illness of their third speaker which prevented his appearance. Nevertheless the foreigners were keener and more subtle than their American opponents, "using the University men's arguments to their own advantage time and again and bringing the house down again and again with laughter at their brilliant jibes." The Harvard speakers, though less eloquent, displayed excellent logic and reasoning powers, and covered their ground more thoroughly than the Englishmen...
...that Broadway has seen for many months. Cyril Maude, Mabel Terry-Lewis and an English cast, most engagingly frivolous regarding certain aspects of matrimony. IN LOVE WITH LOVE-A trivial discussion of why, when and whom a girl should marry made into the semblance of important entertainment by the brilliant playing ot Lynn Fontanne. MERTON OF THE MOVIES-Reveals what is likely to happen when Main Street migrates to Hollywood. Glenn Hunter has made the movie-struck youth a byword in America. TWEEDLES-The old curiosity shop of the Maine coast made the setting of a satire on the futility...