Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There were, however, several brilliant individual performances. Cheek, for the Crimson, took first place in both the shotput and the javelin throw, while his team-mate, J. N. Watters, won both the mile and the half-mile races. Captain R. G. Allen, of the Crimson 1926 team, came in first in the 100-yard dash and second in the 880-yard...
...business man, he broke into national politics as a supporter of Hiram Johnson. Immediately following the 1920 Convention he placed his services at the disposal of Mr. Harding. They were accepted, and led to his appointment to the Shipping Board. His social qualities did the rest. Able in conversation, brilliant at story telling and fond of golf-little wonder that he became one of the President's best friends...
...trade seriously as art with a capital " A " finds the process of creating a masterpiece onerous. Take Joseph Conrad, for example, who made a statement on his arrival here, or was so quoted, that he had never learned to enjoy writing. But the raconteur, whose one guide is a brilliant imagination who lets his only guide be the swift telling of a tale of life, love, mystery and the complications along the side lines. That must be real...
Birkenhead, prospective visitor, who cannot escape the adjective "brilliant...
...large number of brilliant individual athletes are included among the various school delegations. Exeter, which last week defeated the Freshman team, has among others, O'Neill, who won the halfmile race last year, and who holds the interscholastic record for that distance along with Mr. W. J. Bingham...