Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...score of Britishers, led by Sir Herbert Samuel, and including Labor Baron Snell of Plumstead, Sir John Power, Economist Theodor Emanuel Gregory, Cambridge's brilliant Philosopher & Critic Ivor Armstrong Richards...
...Vandalia, Ohio. ¶All-star footballers representing the Midwest: a game against the Pacific Coast, coached by Howard Jones of the University of Southern California, with seven of his last year's team in the lineup; 13 to 7, largely because of a brilliant performance by Michigan's Harry Newman, who returned punts for a total of 84 yd., threw a short pass to Ronzani of Marquette for the winning touchdown; under floodlights, in Soldier Field, Chicago. ¶Cecil Smith, famed cowboy poloist: the case brought against him by Nurse Eugenia Rose of the Evanston, Ill. Hospital...
...year-old, Equipoise, sired by Pennant out of Swinging, was a scrawny, excitable horse, brilliant but undependable. He threw his jockey, Sonny Workman, who rode him last week, in his first start. He fell in the Pimlico Futurity. The next season, after being a winter book favorite for the Kentucky Derby, he ran badly in the Preakness, developed a blind quarter crack (hidden bruise) that made it look as though he might never run again. Last year, heavier (1,080 lb.), more composed, he lived up to his promise by winning ten of his 14 starts, setting a world...
...being in the least convincing. After seeing the picture audiences should be better able to credit the most recent additions to the Hollywood saga about DeMille. Back from a preview of The Sign of the Cross, in which the thing the crowd liked best was Charles Laughton's brilliant high comedy performance as Nero, Director DeMille whispered sadly to a confrere: "I have something terrible to tell poor Charlie. The audience laughed...
...Picture the cancerous growth of modern infidelity as ego-complexed pulpiteers, disguising the breed of the wolf beneath silk cassocks and lacy chasubles, masquerade in imposing processions within high vaulted Gothic cathedrals, built with the superfluous millions of American plutocrats. . . . Think of the brilliant agnostics who read from the Scriptures with crossed thumbs, tongues in the cheek, and mental reservations, who place the Bible on the one level with heathen philosophies. . . . Think of the smooth, oily surrender of the deity of our Savior ... I still repeat the cry, 'BACK TO LUTHER...