Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another jockey waiting for the start was Laverne Fator, whose admirers consider him more brilliant than Sande. Col. Edward Riley Bradley, who had two horses entered last week, told Fator to choose the one he wanted to ride. Fator, who had won $3,000,000 for various owners and won every important U. S. race except the Derby and the Belmont Stakes, chose Brother Joe. Burgoo King, a horse that most of Louisville liked better, he turned over to 19-year-old Eugene James, a jockey who was bred in Louisville and made a sensation last season, his first...
...take up some of the drudgery. It was Brit's enormous capacity for drudgery and detail as well as the inspiration of his original mind, which won him the complete loyalty and affection of his staff. Once he had an office boy named William. William was not a brilliant boy, but he was smart enough to understand the spirit of the office, and young enough to exaggerate it almost comically. 'Mr. Hadden' became his god. William hated to leave at night. Probably he wouldn't have left if Brit hadn't told him he should...
What follows could only happen in Russian novels of the great tradition. Among confused but brilliant conversations the story of the factory's building winds its way. The expropriated peasants protest; hairy saints are rumored to have come from the mossy woods to warn against the new regime; the workers riot; everybody talks at brilliant length. Through the evergreen forest's fur a road is sheared. An immense boom crosses the river, holds back the confluence of logs. With spring's floods the boom breaks. It does not matter?build better, build again. In the depth of the silent wilderness...
...second Freshmen baseball team continued its winning streak by swamping Milton Academy, 21-3, on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon, in a brilliant exhibition of Crimson batting strength. The seconds defeated the first freshman team, 8-4, on Monday in a game featured by the effective pitching of F. E. Wood '35, and the batting of J. E. Hollis '35, who was elected captain before the game...
...Collins, is about a lawyer who had good reason to defend criminals for his livelihood. As assistant district attorney, Vincent Day convicts an innocent man for murder and is unable, when he learns of his mistake, to stop the execution. His methods of atoning for his error are brilliant and unscrupulous. He takes up with a collection of rogues, sees to it that they are not penalized for their crimes. Finally a little Southern secretary (Sidney Fox) makes him ashamed of shabby practice...