Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...centenary of the founding of the British Academy of Arts in Rome was celebrated by a brilliant reception and an address from Sir Oscar Browning, English Historian...
...picture serves to introduce Ivor Novello, a youth of brilliant promise. Unfortunately his work is overshadowed by the acting of Mae Marsh who puts into the part of the luckless working girl one of the finest performances in screen history...
Three of the Medford squad stand out among the brilliant individuals who will compete today. Kelley in the 440-yard run, Moore in the broad jump, and Moody in the high jump should all contribute heavily to their team's point score. Among the other prominent performers will probably be Banchman and Dicks of Newton; McKillop of Boston English; Daley of Brookline; Rumpff of Commerce; Clark of Hyde Park; and Beach of Fitchburg...
...Giants would arouse something more than comment. If the fans remained in their seats, content to hurl epithets and hot dogs, the outbreak would be postponed only until the scribe scuttled savagely in from third to field a bunt. In other words, the scrivener, be he ever so brilliant as a baseball writer, would probably make a cumbersome third baseman...
...professional ball player. In fact, this idea is almost the central theme of his book. He dwells on it so fondly that the uninitiated might suspect the colleges existed solely for the purpose of producing intelligent ball players. Unconsciously Mr. McGraw has thus produced a piercing satire, far more brilliant than Mr. Edison's, against our reverent institutions of the so-called higher learning...