Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Treasurer-onetime (1913-17) Ambassador-to-Germany James Watson Gerard of Manhattan, brilliant opportunist (re-elected...
...gods had to interfere and deposit her in the domesticating arms of her lover, soon husband and five times father. Bromide, he had said "No woman ever made anything more beautiful than a complete and perfect baby," but Arachne swore she preferred making the complete and perfect web of brilliant silks. Athene promised to teach her, and repented when the pupil surpassed her instructress in talent and conception-dangerous impertinence. Her prosaic lover defined romance as "uncomfortable and dangerous things happening to someone else," but Arachne's malapert masterpiece was a nevertheless romantic tapestry of gods and their foibles...
Last week, Vanryn went down in five brilliant sets before the onslaught of small, chunky Julius Seligson, Lehigh sophomore, native of New York's Bronx. Confounding critics of form, Seligson followed this spectacular victory by defeating Ben Grochakoff of Occidental College, Calif., winning the Intercollegiate title...
...life Ludwig presents in glowing contrast to the last tragic months of proud ambition, and violent vituperation of the priesthood, which inevitably led to his failure and crucifixion. In diagnosing Napoleon's career, and Bismarck's, Ludwig traced ascent to fame through youthful virility and brilliant ability, to anticlimax due to pride and hasty resentment. Perhaps something of habit has influenced him to a similar interpretation of Jesus's meteoric career, or perhaps from his viewpoint as a Jew he can but recognize as failure that tragic climax on the cross, which centuries of religious enthusiasts have...
...Arthur Knowles and Children, a gayly sentimental painting showing the pretty Mrs. Knowles lounging on a sofa, embracing two affectionate little boys who nuzzled against her. Less cool than most of Sargent's glimpses at maternity, charming because of its humanity rather than, like most Sargents, because of brilliant artifice, the picture was kept in the Knowles house and secreted from the public. Last week it arrived, for popular inspection, in the Howard Young Galleries, Manhattan, which organization had just purchased it from the original owners...