Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grudging about the occasional attention he must give to his instruments. He wanted to be at one of the nine window ports, watching the earth drop away, watching the heavens em brace him. ... He found time to jot eloquent notes of what he saw. Excerpts:* "5:34 a. m. Brilliant daylight floods all about us. My young friend Cosyns begins his experiments in connection with the cosmic rays. What are we to discover? We wonder...
...rapid-fire monolog: "Do you know whether the Due de? stayed on in the boudoir with Mme Z? Could you explain the kiss he gave her, in the very middle of the ball?" "Overwhelmingly" gentle in voice, elaborately formal in manner, Proust smiled continually, gazed fondly at society from brilliant black eyes under drooping eyelids and "a Saracen's beak." Extravagant, generous?his tips were fantastic?he dressed like the dandy he was: creamy pink shirtfront, a rose or orchid in his lapel, light-colored gloves with black points. Even in summer, for fear of catching cold, he wore...
...commission in the Third Guard Regiment as a Leutnant. Thirteen years later diligent Leutnant von Schleicher won a place on the General Staff and a promotion as Hauptmann (Captain). At the outbreak of the War Hauptmann von Schleicher found himself one of the office staff of brilliant, erratic General Ludendorff. Promotion came slowly. It was 1918 before Hauptmann von Schleicher won his majority. In the bloody days of 1919 German authorities suddenly discovered the usefulness of quiet, unassuming Major von Schleicher. When the remnants of the old army were being reorganized in accordance with the Treaty of Versailles he helped...
...tree-lined avenues running sedately north and south, its citizens moving soberly along them on Sunday mornings to Denver's many churches. Like most second-generation frontier towns, Denver is strongly moral. It has a stern respect for conventional art, religion, home, womanhood. When Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey, after brilliant service in the Juvenile Court, declared that scarcely 10% of Denver's high-school girls were virgins and campaigned nationally for Companionate Marriage, Denver cast him out, has all but forgotten him. Denverites like direct action. Last week six of them pledged half a million dollars' worth of property...
California is a country which resembles Greece in its brilliant skies, its hot bright landscape with blue waves curling at the edges. Its inhabitants have a Spartan pride in physical perfection, an Athenian confidence in their own Golden Age. The steady splendor of the ceremony that opened California's first Olympic Games last week was the expression of a feeling which oldtime Greeks would have understood. It ended in the quiet ritual of the Olympic oath, to "take part in the Olympic Games in loyal competition, respecting the regulations which govern them and desirous of participating in them...