Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beer; young Adolphe, home from Cornell University, helped in the management, greeted customers, but donned no waiter's costume. Yet, Adolphe Menjou, by his cinema roles, has done more than any man alive to glorify the profession of waiters, both plain and head. . . . With the exception of two brilliant scenes, Mr. Menjou's recent films have not been up to the high standards of his earlier ones (such as A Woman of Paris). Let Mr. Menjou return to those standards, as easily as he sets the standards of a cosmopolitan gentleman who is at home in three languages...
When a man sprays himself with the perfume of wood violets and puts on a brilliant cravat he becomes the object of scorn. Such a man is the notorious, fat, spider-like Bela Kun. For 143 days during 1919 he was the atrociously cruel Communist Dictator of Hungary. Today he is mortally hated and feared by the whole Hungarian people and suspected of plotting to overthrow the present reactionary Hungarian Government and the conservative Government of Austria...
...talk of his brilliant past; he wanted the reporters to get the right angle on physiology and the cloudy future, wherein lay the purpose of his endowment fund. The half million dollars was put in trust in memory of his scientist-son, Charles Francis Brush Jr., who died last year. Its income is "to finance efforts contributing toward the betterment of the human stock and toward the regulation of the increase of population, to the end that children shall be begotten only under conditions which make possible a heritage of mental and physical health, and a favorable environment...
...face of such criticism, Ethelreda Lewis, discoverer, editor, and co-author of Trader Horn, maintains confidence in her garrulous and often tedious old peddler. And by way of backing up her publishers' brilliant advertising campaign, based as it is on the essential truth of Trader Horn, she writes a 52-page introduction to volume two, refuting all past and future doubts as to authenticity. She emphasizes the difficulty of computing dates because the trader's 74 years have (conveniently) mingled and mellowed into great confusion: instance his conviction that the Great War was in 1902. She records...
Surgery has yielded "brilliant" results in pulmonary tuberculosis according to Dr. William H. Thearle of Denver. Thoracoplasty, an operation which consists in cutting away part of the ribs, allowing the diseased lung to collapse and be at rest, giving it a chance to heal, and stopping the spread of the disease, has been employed in 148 cases during the last seven years. Forty one per cent were cured, 33% improved...