Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opportunity. One of the soundest arguments of the Neo-Malthusians is that wide-spread opportunity can only be offered to developing manhood and womanhood in a nation unharassed by population difficulties. The second contention is simply false. It was disposed of by Havelock Ellis in a series of brilliant essays quite some time ago. And just recently Terman has shown that the thousand most intelligent children of California are above the average in bodily health and strength...
...Athens, 500 judges heard the accusations brought by Meletus, the poet; Anytus, the tanner; and Lycon, the orator. The accusation ran: "Socrates is guilty, firstly, of denying the gods recognized by the state and introducing new divinities, and, secondly, of corrupting the young." Socrates, with brilliant irony, pleaded guilty only to an open mind; a majority of the judges, 280, steeped in Babbittry, voted him guilty. Thirty days later, conversing with weeping friends, he carried out their sentence, drank the cup of hemlock, died...
...deans began to yawn that it was decided that something had to be done. And that something was the Spring Recess. And so now, it is that late in every April there is a joyful exodus from Cambridge of carefree underclassmen and even a few very wicked, on very brilliant, on very devilclay-care seniors...
Mariners. In this drama by Clemence Dane, scattered episodes play around the central theme-a woman (Pauline Lord) whose love becomes insensate fury. Once a barmaid, this Lilly marries Benjie Cobb (Arthur Wontner), brilliant student. His devotion to his work as minister of a small parish preys upon her mind. Why should he stick in a mudhole? Why permit his ludicrous preaching to interfere with his attention to her? She hates his cloth, his parish, his sacrifice. The parish, in turn scorns her. For 20 years her husband has struggled to reconcile her to his life. With all the sincerity...
...Albert Cole, cobbler-music teacher, dyed a pair of his own oxfords with an analine tint last week and at once took so long a walk that his feet perspired. Soon he developed a dizzy headache and felt sleepy. Local doctors found him dying, his entire body tinted a "brilliant blue, as though it had been painted." The theory was that the shoe dye had colored him so. Really, the aniline in the dye had fixed itself onto the red corpuscles of the man's blood, as does carbon monoxide gas from motor car exhausts, and prevented his blood...