Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last of the seventh, with two out, the Crimson made a brilliant recovery. Buell singled to center and Gordon worked a base on balls. Owen then landed on a low ball, knocking out a liner which looked at first like a homer. Williams made a long run, turned, and reached up for the ball, but it bounced out of his glove. Before he could recover, Owen had reached third and Buell and Gordon had both scored. Two more singles and two errors brought the total to six before Keegan, who substituted for Larrabee in the seventh, grounded out to short...
...sufficient to check the aggressive Williams nine yesterday afternoon at Soldiers Field, the Purple finally winning by the scant margin of two runs to one. It was a pitching battle all the way between Herrmann and Clement, both men holding their opponents to six singles. Clark played a brilliant game for the Crimson by making several spectacular catches that deprived the Purple of apparently sure runs. Buck was the individual star for the visitors, cutting short the University's one opportunity to tie the score in the last of the seventh by scooping up a hard-hit liner by Gordon...
...most debatable subject is the progress of "Sunday legislation". Theatres, baseball games and all kinds of amusement have been the targets of the Lord's Day Alliance, and brilliant success is claimed in the South and West. While three states have let down the bars, six have moved forward toward perfection and prohibitions. But as the militant reactionaries point out, the three states which have retrogressed to more freedom are New York, Connecticut and Oregon with large and important populations; and conversely, the "good" states are mostly rural, thinly inhabited and poor fields for theatrical exploitation anyway...
...Eternal City the British sovereigns were everywhere acclaimed with spontaneous joy by the populace. The sight of two of the few remaining monarchs in Europe greeting each other with brotherly affection was too much for the Latin temperament of the Romans. They gave themselves up to the brilliant splendor of a visit that will go down in Italian history as the principal event...
...author was Prime Minister and foreign Secretary of the French Republic during that period immediately preceding the war and during the first fateful days of the German advance on the Marne. By profession he is a lawyer; in politics he is an independent socialist. A man renowned for his brilliant rhetoric, vivacious temperament and engaging personality, M. Viviani showed even greater qualities during those first days of the war, when the existence of France was rendered so precarious, by complete subjugation of all other interests to the task of leading his country through her terrible ordeal. He is sometimes called...