Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Montreal Canadiens. A team of virtuosos-tricky Joliat in his little black cap, Leduc, indolent, brilliant Howie Morenz, the world's fastest puckster. Puzzled by the new rules, the Canadiens were bumped around and badly beaten by the Maroons, outskated by the Rangers...
...first recognition by a Princeton undergraduate body of Wilson's death. Wilson's fellow Whig and classmate in Princeton's most famed class of 1879, Editor Robert Bridges of Scribner's† talked about his friend "Tommy" Wilson, brilliant conversationalist, Whig Speaker, undergraduate leader, "warm, human." Editor Bridges remembered the '79 reunion in the White House (1919), spoke feelingly of his classmate. Said he: "Wilson was not an austere bundle of principles. . . . He was always companionable, and there was no pose...
Whatever the Royal cortège lacked in grandeur was more than made up by pomp displayed by the Supreme Pontiff. At the technical frontier of the minuscule Vatican State the eight motor cars stopped. There, brilliant in the warm December sunshine stood Commendatore Serafini, Governor of Vatican City; Prince Massimo, Papal Postmaster General, gorgeous in hose, doublet and a stiff medieval ruff, with a red-plumed morion on his head; and Commendatore de Mandato, general of the Pope's Armies. Out of his automobile stepped short-legged Vittorio Emanuele III, in the grey-green and silver dress uniform...
This is considered an easy theme, much easier than that of two years ago-"THE COLORING OF THE MOUNTAIN BECOMES MORE BRILLIANT"-a stumper which proved difficult to get into the requisite tanka form of 31 syllables, in lines of five, seven, five, seven and seven syllables (TIME...
Maier is internationally celebrated for his two-piano work with Lee Pattison, and also for his children's concerts. He first studied the piano in Boston, and later in Berlin with Arthur Schnabel. His style is dynamic, eager, and spiritual, his tone brilliant and scintillating. He is one of the few living pianists whose sense of humor is frequently manifest in his playing. For the past season he has been in charge of the teaching of piano at the University School of Music at Ann Arbor, Michigan, in addition to giving about 50 joint recitals with Mr. Pattison...