Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...figure of the Senate chamber. It was the intimacy of the Russian journey which allowed the sculptor to rely so much on memory. But once his memory failed. The Senator's alert, responsive hands were elusive. Sculptor Davidson was baffled. Then to the Paris studio came the Senator's brilliant younger son, Philip La Follette, lecturer on law at the University of Wisconsin (TIME, Oct. 22). It is in this son rather than in his older brother, "Young Bob," the present Senator, that the father is still visible. It was in a gesture of Son Philip's?quickly gripping...
...Brilliant were the tactics which allowed Lieut. Carrington to choose the Miraflores-Pedro Miguel letterbox for his correspondence. Off the Pacific entrance of the Canal had maneuvered the two opposing fleets, the attacking Blacks, 99 ships strong, and the defending Blues, with 75 ships. From Hampton Roads was steaming a theoretical supporting fleet ready to go through the Canal to the aid of the Blues. The issue: Could the Blacks bomb the Canal's locks, thus closing navigation before the reinforcements could arrive...
Serena Blandish was born near the docks of London. When she grew up, she was carried off by a Countess who wished her to make a brilliant marriage. This Serena was incompetent to do. She accepted a ring from a Jewish jeweler and she accepted a luncheon engagement with Lord Ivor Cream. The ring led to embarrassments and the luncheon engagement led, not to another engagement of a more permanent nature, but to tea. Martin, the Countess's butler, gloomily observed: "A lady who stays to tea where she has been invited to luncheon never gets engaged...
...University hockey squad will take possession of the Boston Garden ice this afternoon for the first practice since the 5 to 1 victory over the Boston Athletic Association six on January 16. With the exception of J. B. Garrison '31, brilliant first string center, who has been out of the lineup with a broken wrist since the New Year's Eve game with Toronto, all the regular puckmen are expected to be on hand to herald the reopening of the hockey season...
Prospects for a successful finish of the season received considerable encouragement with the news that J. B. Garrison '31, brilliant first string center, would be in condition to play within three weeks, probably in time to participate in the second Dartmouth game on February 16. Garrison suffered a broken wrist in the contest with Toronto in New York on New Year's Eve. It was first believed that his injury would keep him out of play for the rest of the season...