Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present senior class at Brown is so exceptionally brilliant that many of its members will be excused from taking the final examinations...
...current Atlantic Monthly contains an article by the brilliant Dean of St. Paul's, London, discussing the Catholic Church and the Anglo-Saxon mind. He makes it his purpose to examine whether or not Protestantism is a spent force. He points out that although the Anglo-Catholic wing of the Established Church in England is strong among the clergy, especially in Canterbury, yet the movement has but a weak hold on the laity. "But," he adds, "a schismatical Catholic Church is a contradiction in terms. The (Anglo-Catholic) movement will probably end by enriching Protestantism with such romantic...
When the excavator's shovel can unearth a piece of tapestry or a gold cup which so catches the popular fancy that the styles of the world are changed, the less spectacular work of men like Professor George A. Reisner is temporarily overshadowed. No brilliant treasures were found in the pilfered tombs unearthed by the expedition from this University and the Boston Museum, and the accident of publicity did not popularize their work. Yet their discoveries add whole new chapters to Ethiopian history which will be read when Tut-ankh-Amen has dropped to the footnotes...
...brilliant yellow journal like the New York American will play the story for all it is worth from every angle. Editorially committed to the adulation of the common man (the "Mr. Dubb" of its cartoons), it commercializes the fact that the vice of riches lay at the bottom of the tragedy. It breaks through the tacit and decent understanding between " respectable" papers whereby Mr, Mitchell's family was shielded and exposes him with picture and headlines, thus: " Here is 'Marshall' unmasked. The respected John Kearsley Mitchell of Philadelphia, New York and Boston clubdom, a member by marriage...
...little eight-page newspapers of Paris, brilliant, powerful and many, continue their diurnal animadversions against the United States. Leading the field are the Matin (edited by Stephen Lausanne, a welcome guest in many American homes), the semi-official Temps, the Midi, the Liberte. The text, as a rule, is either the Washington limitation of armaments plan or the debts. Exhibit "A" from the Liberte: " We were the victims at Washington of an Anglo-American combination and two questions of money prevent us from escaping...