Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME infers the membership of the Klan to be weak-minded. If a brilliant war record in command of 1,000 men, a salary of $10,000 and a national reputation in his profession indicates weakness of mind, this Klansman accepts the inference...
...Alter Jr. and myself [Mr. Alter] would be more than delighted to have you and Mrs. Davis as our house guests during the period that you are in Cincinnati. We would deem it a high honor to house such distinguished and popular people. You, with your magnetic personality and brilliant attainments, your devoted wife with her charm of manner and her most beautiful personality, which has endeared herself to all with whom she has come in contact, and making her society irresistible. . . . We have a very attractive and beautiful home, the house being surrounded by beautiful grounds, artistically laid...
...lamentably the effects of an abdominal operation brought Death to Earl Cave last week after he had enjoyed his new title for less than a day. Of him the London Times, said with a justice finer than eulogy, "Although he cannot be reckoned among the greatest in the long, brilliant roll of Lord High Chancellors of England, he must rank as a sound lawyer. . . . None excelled him in ... sanity of judgment...
...Douglas Hogg. Someone must always be Lord High Chancellor, but to have chosen a new one fit to rank "among the greatest," last week, would probably have meant returning to the Woolsack the brilliant Earl of Birkenhead, who sat thereon during 1919-22, but is now Secretary of State for India. Patently Lord Birkenhead does not want to impair his chances of perhaps someday becoming Prime Minister by again withdrawing from the hot arena of politics to the lofty precincts of the Lord High Chancellor. Therefore, last week, His Majesty was "advised" by the Baldwin Cabinet to call...
...generation, last week startled grave astronomers by unaccountable conduct. In Cape Town it was observed that two stars were shining where Nova Pictoris had shone alone. Discovered in 1925, the star had been behaving in orderly fashion, following the regular pattern of its ancestors: first a mass of fiery brilliant gases, then cooling, contracting, dimming. Recently the La Plata Observatory in Argentina reported strange doings in the nebula of the young star. When the Union of South Africa Observatory last week turned its great 26 inch telescope on Nova Pictoris and revealed another star by its side, some astronomers proclaimed...