Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hero Burns was the youth who solved his native Ohio's tally-sheet forgeries in 1885 and entered the U. S. Secret Service with a brilliant reputation which soon became international. Hero Burns was the detective who caught Charles Ulrich, the German counterfeiter; Taylor & Bredill, the Monroe-head $100 bill makers; Abe Ruef, corrupt boss of San Francisco, and many another. When James B. and John J. McNamara, the dynamiting brothers who from 1905 to 1910 blew up bridges, piers, hotels and finally the Los Angeles Times, were captured in Detroit in 1911, it was to Hero Burns that Theodore...
...said not only to be brilliant and adroit but a genial host, a good horseman and a "fair" tennis player...
George Bernard Shaw, master of brilliant self-publicity, commented: "I am still alive; I am not ready for it." Facetious? Apparently; for nobody, so far as could be ascertained, had even suggested that he was a fit candidate, as a corpse, for burial in the "hallowed precincts of Westminster." But one dignitary of the church, eschewing publicity, made what was probably a subconscious but none the less effective rejoinder. Said he: "The Abbey is crammed with memorials of respectable nonentities, buried there by friends who could afford...
...might this Dr. von Prittwitz be? Research showed him to be no more than Counselor of Embassy at the German Embassy at Rome. Was the German Government actually proposing to elevate a man of such minor rank to be an ambassador? Well, why not? He was evidently a capable, brilliant, clever diplomat. There was no reason why the U. S. should object to the appointment. The U. S. Secretary of State caused the German Government to be informed by cable that the President and Government of the U. S. considered Dr. von Prittwitz persona grata...
...analogy of salvarsan, chemists have manufactured mercurochrome (red antiseptic recently commercialized and now a rival of iodine for first aid treatment), brilliant green, gentian violet, acriviolet, hexyl-resorcinal (put together by Professor Treat Baldwin Johnson of Yale and 50 times more powerful than carbolic acid) and many another. Many of them can be injected directly into the blood stream. Practically each week brings reports of new ones in the scientific periodicals. Their bases are tar, distilled from coal and modified according to the need of medicine and the will of chemistry. Monsol is another of their family...