Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have a last name, General Ismet Pasha took his from the Battle of Inönü, in 1921, in which he commanded the Turkish troops who routed the Greeks. Prime Minister for twelve years, Ismet Inönü was often called a martinet, is regarded as a brilliant, stubborn bureaucrat. As chaste in his personal life as Atatürk was lecherous, he is violently nationalist. He represented Turkey at two crucial international conferences at Lausanne and Montreux, getting for Turkey virtually all she wanted. French and British statesmen railed at him but the louder their demands...
...this most Dada of the Dadaists resigned from the group, ostensibly because Dada was beginning to develop certain rational theories which led to Surrealism. He collaborated on a ballet with Composer Erik Satie, on a brilliant movie, Entr'acte, with René Clair, and, in the true Dada spirit, accepted the rosette of the Legion of Honor. Wealthy and well advertised by Gertrude Stein, in the last few years Picabia has rested on his reputation, yachting and developing an elegantly fretful manner. Last week Paris was shocked at 60-year-old Yachtsman Picabia's latest show...
...painted them because I wanted to." Picabia enthusiasts spoke in awed tones of the master's daring in risking banality by a return to nature. But a growing number of critics called it reversion to type, dismissed Picabia's middle period as the intellectual shenanigans of a brilliant amateur...
Mendel scored his first goal early in the second period when a hard drive of about thirty yards plowed through the Yale goal. Soon after that Mendel chalked up the second goal by scoring on a brilliant pass from Rousmaniers...
...Amphitryon's adjutant) and in cleverly contrasting the characters of master and servant and god and mortal, the story has been given a masterful twist, a twist which incidentally lets Mercury succeed where Jupiter fails. Henri Garat as the bibulous deity and Armand Bernardas, his more conservative messenger, give brilliant performances opposite Jeanne Boitel and Odette Florelle, two charming citizens of Joinville, whose ardor the Hays Commission has never dampened...