Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...away with that "etc., etc.,"? Must you confess you were stumped, or were you too lazy to look up any more Gentile names? Whichever it was, the "etc., etc.," was very derogatory and left the impression of, "Why bother to mention any more Gentiles? There are ever so many brilliant millions of Gentile composers," as you doubtlessly intended your note to effect...
...your edification and amusement, I am enclosing copy of an editorial which appeared in the Meridian (Miss.) Star under date of April 24, concerning Senator Stephens. The editorial is written by one of the most brilliant writers in Mississippi-a man who is a recent-comer to the South and who is regarded as the most independent editor in the State. He has had occasion to study the record of Senator Stephens and to know whereof he speaks. A closer study than you have given the Senator's record will convince you of your unfairness in passing upon...
Many birds settle down to a drab existence in captivity although in excellent health. The flamingo gradually loses its brilliant red color, turns an ugly grey...
Brains. The brains of three brilliant scientists, Sir William Osier, Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Sylvester Morse, were earnestly examined by Dr. Henry Herbert Donaldson of the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, Philadelphia. He hoped these mighty mentalities had left some physical traces on the twisted convolutions of their brains. The tortuous hills and valleys of the cerebral hemispheres were much alike; nothing could be inferred from them about the tastes and pursuits of the living minds. These are matters of the chemical relationships in the living tissue; death blots them out; the brains of dead men look very much...
Jeffers, a graduate of Princeton, captained the Nassau lacrosse players in 1926, after a brilliant two-year record on the university team. During his last two years in college he was twice picked for the mythical All-American aggregation. He has been playing for two season with the Boston Lacrosse Club, whose team defeated the University by a 5 to 3 score on April...