Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with whom the King would rather dine and sit up late over a whiskey-soda. But scowling heavens loosed a cloudburst just as the Royal Train drew in. Terrific thunder claps, incessant lightning and sheets of lashing rain kept Their Majesties aboard the train all night. Next day amid brilliant sunshine Lord Derby was their guest as they chuffed off to open the most exciting feat of British engineering in this decade-Queensway, longest and largest underwater tunnel in the world...
...seats built in front of the Church of San Trovaso, a brilliant audience greeted the pageant and its cast. Umberto, Prince of Piedmont and heir to Italy's throne, gave Producer Reinhardt his congratulations. After four performances the "localization" of The Merchant of Venice, arranged to climax the biennial Venetian art exposition, closed...
Tense on the centre aisle of Manhattan's small Holy Cross Armenian Apostolic Church last Christmas Eve sat a little band of men who were not there to worship God and His Son to be born on the morrow. Brilliant in churchly regalia, a solemn procession moved up the aisle toward the candle-decked altar. When Archbishop Leon Tourian, tall, grey-bearded primate of his Church in America, drew abreast of them, the men did what they had come for. A double-edged butcher knife flashed once, vanished in the Archbishop's abdomen. (TIME...
...Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) was the child of a middle-class professional family of Madrid which had fallen on evil days. Miguel left home early to seek his fortune. In Italy he became a Spanish footsoldier, lounged about Rome and Naples in a brilliant uniform with little money in his purse. Though some of his biographers say he was a born soldier, Author Tomas disagrees, thinks Cervantes loathed the life but preferred it to starvation. He acquitted himself creditably in the great sea-battle of Lepanto, in which Don John of Austria destroyed the Turkish fleet...
...funeral chapel at Lankwitz's Park Cemetery in Berlin went in full uniform with all his medals General Baron Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord. who was the Reichswehr's brilliant commander under Chancellor von Schleicher. Floral tributes rolled up by the truckload and Military Chaplain Schleigel was striding resolutely up to begin the service when he was nabbed by Secret Police...