Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only is Scapini a national figure because of his war record, but he is one of the most brilliant lawyers in France and a prominent member of the French Chamber of Deputies. He is visiting the United States at the special invitation of Ambassador Herrick and the American Legion...
Semberly and with understanding the Flonzaley Quartet accompany brilliant Harold Bauer through the five records of Brahm's Quintet in F Minor...
...eulogizing the brilliant work of French and Guarnaccia, too much cannot be said for the way in which the interference was time and again sweeping the Dartmouth defense out of the play and giving them an opportunity to break loose. It was the best exhibition of coordinated blocking which a Harvard team has put on in recent years and augurs well for the remainder of the season...
...polite tempest of gossip and denial that the great Earl of Birkenhead would resign as Secretary of State for India was finally stilled, last week, when he, burly, brilliant and socially lionized, despatched to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin a lengthy letter. Suave, it concluded: "The moment of parting is always sad. Your own personality has converted a Cabinet which assembled upon the crater of some bitter and recent memories into a band of brothers. I leave them and you with emotion and, if I may be allowed to say so, with affection."-Birkenhead...
Michael Gordon is the ideal husband-brilliant war record, handy about the house, shaggy tweeds, chugging pipe. He worships his wife, aids and abets her stage career. They find a storybook cottage-thatch roof, rambler roses, flagstones-he settles down to his writing, she commutes to her London theatre. Every midnight he meets her in the two-seater, serves her supper at the blazing hearth, listens to her footlight triumphs. In short, he is so thoroughbred that she succumbs to the illicit blandishments of the leading man in her show. Fond Michael, suddenly informed, spoils the matinée idol...