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Word: brilliants (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ceremony was simple, so simple in fact that the monarch and his entourage entered the building by a side door. There were no red carpet, no flowers, no decorations on the Palace, no brilliant uniforms; King, Dictator, Delegates were all dressed in sombre morning attire. The only splash of color was supplied by the Princes of the Church in their Cardinal red. This drab setting was to emphasize the fact that the Assembly is a working body and not a fountain of useless rhetoric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Assembly Opened | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...married a millionaire. The jokes were moldy, the dancing deft, and the vast chorus uncommonly bewitching. Imbedded none too conspicuously in the generally unwieldy proceedings is an actor named Louis John Bartels, playing his first part on Broadway since he laid a just claim to fame as the blabbering, brilliant hero of The Show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 24, 1927 | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...first prize ($1,500) they awarded to a still life by Henri Matisse. Perhaps it was unfortunate that the highest honors should fall to a Frenchman whose name is a legend in modern painting; but the picture, in which great brilliant fruits and flowers coiled themselves into a pattern like the graph of a sunset, made the award imperative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: International Exhibition | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...Hank Kumpf gallumphed 70 yards through Wesleyan to add the most brilliant play to Columbia's easy victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football Matches: Oct. 17, 1927 | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

Displaying a hard-charging line, a smooth and efficient running attack aided by brilliant passes, and a general tightening of the girths all-around, the University eleven clearly outplayed the Crusaders of Holy Cross last Saturday. The 14 to 6 score might have been larger with a little more time at the close of the fourth period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD ELEVEN SHOWS NEW SPIRIT | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

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