Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long ago the bitter-brilliant publicist Maximilian Harden went to a State Reception held at the Foreign Office of the German Republic. He skulked about. There were mountains of caviar sandwiches, sideboards snowy with ices, trays of brimming champagne goblets; and all the women had shaved and powdered under their armpits. These things put Publicist Harden into a towering, democratic rage...
...like TIME because nothing in it is written in commonplace fashion-sometimes you are almost brilliant. I believe that all, or nearly all, that is said is true, and by speaking the truth you very fortunately place yourself on the liberal side. I believe I like your publication quite as much as I do my old friend the Nation. Thank you a thousand times for your article on Bill Haywood, in May 28 issue...
...temperature was 95° one afternoon last week. The score of the finals of a distinguished lawn tennis tournament stood: 6-8, 6-1, 6-4, 4-6, 10-10, John Van Ryn of East Orange, N. J. v. Wilmer Allison of Austin, Tex.-both young and brilliant players. Allison, making beautiful shots and then staggering blindly, had been within one point of victory. After that, he was in hopeless condition; Van Ryn took the 20th game of the fifth at love. Allison walked up to the net, told Van Ryn he was going to retire, went into the locker...
With gleaming tusks, spotted skins, Africa lures the hunter. With savage tribes, brilliant plumage, exotic flowers, Africa calls to the explorer and the naturalist. But to the 20th century industrialist, eagerly scanning the world's wealth, the world's markets, Africa means first RAW MATERIALS, then CHEAP LABOR. Palm oil, extracted from the fruit of the African oil palm, the basis of many a soap, drew William Hesketh Lever to Africa in 1911 (see p. 17). More and more oil was needed for Lever Brothers' gigantic plant at Port Sunlight, England. The Congo held a vast, almost...
...Brilliant is the spotlight which plays about the comings and goings, the doings and infrequent sayings of Gov. Benjamin Strong of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. All the world knows when he speeds to Europe. All the world watches for his meeting with the Grand Viziers of international finance...