Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Result was to cast the justices into shadowy gloom. Last week the red curtains, side and rear, were swathed in white, and only in the front half of the chamber were inverted ceiling lights switched on. Thus the audience was thrown into shadow, the black-robed old actors into brilliant relief...
Philip was the type of the leader-king, a redoubtable adversary at war, a brilliant military organizer, a friend of learning and perhaps the best educated man of his time. With Aristotle he discussed the philosopher's schemes for the organization of real knowledge, with Isocrates he planned a great union of Greek states to dominate the Eastern world. Occasionally he got drunk...
Meltzner, one of the most brilliant students in the Law School in recent years, was graduated magna cum laude last June, and was engaged in graduate work at the time of his death...
...happy at the triumph of President Roosevelt, for whom I have the greatest admiration!" As a respected editorial voice speaking for the moderate Left, roughly comparable in France to the U. S. Democratic Party, famed Jules Sauerwein of Le Paris-Soir exhulted: "Henceforth democracy has its Chief! After his brilliant triumph President Roosevelt has become the statesman on whom all eyes will be turned from every part of the world and on whom every hope is to be pinned if the great liberal and democratic civilization of the Occident is one day threatened, either by Bolshevism or by autocracy...
Opening night was the most brilliant on record. The crowd of 15,000 that packed Madison Square Garden crackled with applause when a severe, vaguely familiar-looking man in a tail coat came out into the ring to receive the salute of 26 of the world's ablest cavalry officers, picked from Canada, Chile, France, Great Britain, the Irish Free State, Sweden and the U. S. He was General John Joseph Pershing. Most popular event of the evening was the performance of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. More spectacular than in fiction or cinema, a troop...