Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These early passes were by far the most impressive work of the squad during the afternoon although the team showed spark throughout the entire game and shook Lane and Locke loose several times for long runs. The Crimson running attack though brilliant at times was rather inconsistent and the first team succeeded in piercing the Bates line for only 12 yards in the first period. In the waning minutes of the first half, however, they riddled the Bobcats for 174 yards. Most of this yardage was a contribution of the second team, which seemed to outrank the A outfit...
...less accomplished a talent than Ethel Waters is sprightly Marilyn Miller, who always seems illumined by a bright inward gayety. Not since Smiles (1930) has Miss Miller been seen on the stage. She rewards her many admirers for her absence with some brilliant ballroom dancing, a cunning burlesque of Lynn Fontanne, a sprightly tap dance in which, surrounded by funnypaper characters, she takes Skippy to her bosom, departs hand in hand with Mickey Mouse. At one point Miss Broderick tunefully predicts: "Uncle Sam will be in Heaven when the dollar goes to Hell.'' Even then As Thousands Cheer...
...Louis Browns lifted a long fly to left field. Heinie Manush, Washington's fielder, started with the crack of the bat. He dived forward near the wall, rolled over on the turf, came up without his cap but with the ball gripped tightly in his glove, a brilliant catch that ended the game and, statistically, the astonishing major league baseball season...
...sentimental and God-conscious. College being out of the question, when Floyd finished school he went to work in a candy factory, graduated (often by expulsion) to other jobs, till he gravitated into journalism. At 21 he was a reporter on the Chicago Evening Post, was soon assistant to brilliant young Francis Hackett on the Post's "Friday Literary Review" When Hackett left, Dell succeeded him. In 1913 he felt successful enough to seek his fortune in the wilds of Manhattan's Greenwich Village. He became Max Eastman's assistant editor on the Masses, was a member...
...MANDOA!-Winifred Holtby -Macmillan ($2.50). If civilization could be put in a nutshell, the neat result might well resemble Mandoa, Mandoa! Founded on the Swiftian principle of satiric contrast (Gulliver v. Lilliput)-in this case the white man's burden v. the black man's blessings-this brilliant novel makes mincemeat alike of the noble savage and the noble civilizer. If Authoress Holtby were not so entertaining, her carefully unmoralized tale might cause some well-clothed shudders. Prettily executed and often good for a laugh, Mandoa, Mandoa! may well seem to thoughtful readers a shrewd axe-blow...