Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brilliant example of one of the most potential sources of war that has hit the nation since the British propaganda bureau was established in New York during the war in now on display here in the form of the complete pictorial scenes of the Panay bombing...
...agents, he wanted to protect the lives and property of all his relatives. He suggested in his bland, almost unctuous way that the Vagabond be provided with an accident insurance policy; thus, when he got hurt or killed, there would be money to cover the situation. It was a brilliant idea, worthy of the high ideals of material civilization; the family embraced it quickly, and the Vagabond was bundled off to be examined by a doctor. It was a principle of the insurance company that an individual be sound in body before he receive a policy...
This extension of so-called dimensional analysis, used for years in the design of turbines, ships, and airplanes, into the highly complicated region of the interaction of electrical potentials, is regarded as one of the most brilliant of Chaffee's accomplishments...
...acting of "Angel" is never brilliant, the story is improbable, and the conclusion not wholly convincing; but sheer technique has raised it above the common run. The photography, particularly in the close-ups of Miss Dietrich, the skillful contrast of the gowns she wears as Angel and Maria's tailored English costumes, the detail of the sets, the handling of suspense, the clever way in which the telephone is twice used to advance the plot, scraps of dialogue which show, a little satirically perhaps, the social structure of "this Sacred Plot," these and a score of other subtleties prove...
When Monahan replaced Summers in the Belmont not after the third tally, the Yardlings were unable to score again until the middle of the third period. Monahan came up with four or five brilliant saves, but for the most part had an easy time repulsing the Yardlings' attack which failed to function effectively. With the schoolboys tiring in the third period, Coach Hodder's team ran its total to five...