Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marriage in Vienna last week of Infante Alphonse of Bourbon-Caserta, nephew of deposed Alfonso of Spain, to the Princess Alice of Bourbon-Parma, niece of deposed Empress Zita of Austria. Crowds gawked at the door of the church, admired the bride's silver lamé gown, the brilliant uniforms of the guests. Almost unnoticed in another part of Vienna was another wedding guest, Britain's onetime Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain. The presence of this British elder statesman with his monocle screwed into his emaciated aristocratic face suggested bigger news than all the empty pageantry of defunct...
...their teaching ability and their qualifications as research men. Actually, if a man has any teaching ability to begin with, he had best smother it at once if he expects to linger here much more than a year. Promotions come not as a reward for conscientious or even brilliant teaching, but as a guerdon for advancing the cause of science...
...either with money or with popular and sympathetic support. If anyone doubts the truth of this let him ask himself whether the House of Representatives of Georgia has ordered Erskine Caldwell examined by a psychiatrist. Certainly the author of the famous "Tobacco Road" handed Georgia no orchids' in that brilliant yet searing expose. Though Caldwell and Peter Moody represent two totally different planes of achievement and position they nevertheless are doing the same thing:--telling of life and conditions as they see them, and the right to do so is guaranteed them. As long as any form of free speech...
Rhode Island has an exceptionally brilliant bunch of weight men, headed by Irving Folwarthshny and William Rowe, each of whom is potentially capable of ten foot more in the hammer throw than Norm Cahners, top Harvard man who hurled it 162 feet in the recent handicap meet. Folwarthshny also has a world record to his credit in the 35-pound weight throw, won in winter competition...
Chief defense attorney was brilliant, liberal Frank P. Walsh, who has made his name & fame by dramatic defenses of everybody from Edward L. Doheny to Tom Mooney. Of the three House managers, Alabama's chunky Sam Hobbs bore the brunt of the prosecution...