Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...field of science, however, his work has been superseded, while his painting still lives; so we are prone to forget that in his lifetime he spent almost as much time at one as at the other. Even in the Renaissance it was possible for a diligent and brilliant student to cover nearly all branches of human knowledge and to be proficient in several of the arts. As the generations passed, however, and as the mass of intellectual and scientific discovery increased, this 'omniscience became more and more difficult, until in our day it is quite impossible. The pendulum has swung...
...considered the last word in blasphemy. The author was the son of an atheist and confessed that he had an extreme dislike for the church from earliest childhood. His mother had him baptized secretly. He became one of the leading literary men of Italy because of his brilliant attacks on even such philosophical systems as Haeckel or Nietzsche could construct. He was known as an atheist, an anarchist, a nihilist. Then financial troubles drove him to leave his native Florence and live within the confines of a poor little mountain village. Here he became acquainted with the lowly, the humble...
...Club, London. Hume won the 220-yard hurdles in 25% seconds and Brown took the shot put with 42 feet 8 inches-a 'varsity record. H. M. Abrahams, of Cambridge, with victories in the 100-yard dash, the quarter-mile and the broad jump, was the most brilliant individual of the afternoon. Walter Hagen, who recently created a world's record of 62 strokes for 18 holes of golf in tournament competition, broke the course record at the Asheville (N. C.) Country Club with 66 in open tournament play. The hockey team of the Boston Athletic Association...
Giovanni Papini-he looked into his heart and wrote a brilliant his- tory. (See Page 20.) The Saturday Evening Post-clean business. (P. 24.) A royal wedding gown of chiffon moire, silver thread, pearls, tulle and borrowed lace...
Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen wrote another tennis title into her brilliant history by defeating Miss Elizabeth Ryan, formerly of California, in the finals of the tournament at Nice. Earlier in the play the French girl buried Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mallory under her irresistible attack, 6-0, 6-0. Mrs. Mallory has been defeated three times in recent European tournaments. Though far from the top of her game, owing to a recent attack of influenza, she has dodged no opportunity for competition...