Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italy's first anti-Semitic decree, which was limited to excluding the 20,000 Jews who have entered Italy since the War. Eager to please the Dictator, many Italian employers have been firing Jews, many Jews have fearfully resigned important posts. Last week it was learned that the brilliant Jewish correspondent, Alberto Moravia, after being fired by the People's Gazette of Turin, wrote directly to Premier Mussolini, asking if the Dictator had ever issued orders for Jewish journalists to be booted from their jobs. Promptly the Premier gave the Turin Gazette's editor a wigging...
...from 1910 to 1933; George Lyman Kittredge '82, indisputably the world's authority on Shakspere, Chaucer, and much else of English literature; Charles Townsond Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetorie and Oratory, emeritus, the "Copey" who has been literary father of many American writers; and Alfred North Whitehead, the brilliant mathematician and philosopher...
...many words have been written about the indifference which supposedly breathes in Harvard's "brilliant but cold" Georgian buildings, in the social life of its myriad inhabitants, and in the attitude of the University as a whole toward life and liberalism, that upperclassmen and graduates can only growl feebly when they read them. Like communism the word indifference has a kind of African mystery to it, as thought if analyzed, it might explode in one's face and release snakes and tigers. Really it is the tool of description for those who do not understand a social condition easily explained...
Austie Harding, a brilliant but erratic passer and runner, and Frank Foley, steady but not as brilliant as Harding, have been going neck and neck for the tailback post. Unquestionably Harding is one of the most improved players on the field; both he and Foley have shown good play-calling ability in the past...
Although the admirers of Tommy Hitchcock had plenty to crow about (he played his usual slam-bang game), the teamwork of the Greentree side faded under the brilliant strategy of Old Westbury's Stewart Iglehart and the aggressive, precise team play of his mates. From the fourth chukker on, they peppered the Greentree goal-Mike Phipps scoring six times, Cecil Smith eight, Stewart Iglehart two-in a display of well-balanced polo that has seldom been matched anywhere. Greentree, conspicuously outmounted but making exciting play of it until the final gong, scored only seven goals. Experts wondered whether...