Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years, maintain correspondents all over Europe and the U. S. Editor of both magazines is young Arnold Gingrich, eight years out of the University of Michigan, who like his employers, keeps erratic hours but considers himself more the artist, less the businessman than they. In informal notes surrounding the brilliant table of contents in the first issue of Esquire, Editor Gingrich explained some of its purposes beyond offering an attractive medium to advertisers of men's accessories: "Esquire aims to become the common denominator of masculine interests-to be all things to all men. ... It aims to be among...
...Boston's brilliant functions always attract a hoard of gate-crashers, worthy and otherwise. There were no crashers at the Conant Inaugural. Yet Colonel Apted was unable to prevent one person without an invitation from slipping through the police cordons and witnessing the ceremony...
Fergy Locke's brilliant 50-yard end run started the Varsity on its way to a 12-0 victory over the Jayvees at Soldiers Field Wednesday afternoon. This was the only action the Varsity saw over the holiday, yesterday morning's workout being restricted to signal drills and formation work...
...writer, Pegler's chief merit is an attentive, saturnine realism. The first paragraph of his piece before last week's most widely publicized prizefight: "Jack Sharkey, the prizefighter who took up failure as a vocation in life and made a brilliant success of it, is fighting his old friend Tommy Loughran in Philadelphia tonight. There is a contest in which it ought to be possible to stir up the widest disinterest...
...Author, a 40-year-old Parisian who divides his year between France and the U. S., is rare among unofficial ambassadors in being properly and adequately accredited. A brilliant scholar who has taken every degree open to a professor in France, he knows more about the U. S. and U. S. history than the vast majority of U. S. citizens. No myopic flatfoot, Professor Faÿ served nearly five years in the War, emerged with the rank of captain, the Croix de Guerre (won at Verdun), the Medaille de Leopold II. Twelve years ago he began to make regular visits...