Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clark came to the rescue with $50,000 to subsidize the boy in seclusion until he was 18-Pianist Hofmann and the orchestra performed Rubinstein's shopworn but showy Concerto in D Minor. Still one of the world's great pianists, despite his small hands,* and a brilliant technician who excels at interpreting Chopin, Hofmann next played a group of Chopin solo pieces and many an encore. One of them was the "Minute" Waltz which Hofmann-his humor not deserting him even on so dressy an occasion-tacked impishly on the end of a languishing Chopin nocturne...
...military enterprises are undertaken to enhance the reputation of generals during wars, for instance, it is militarism, as it is when unnecessarily large armies are maintained during peace. The genuine military point of view Dr. Vagts finds occasionally in Napoleon (when he said an unnecessary maneuver, no matter how brilliant, was criminal), in Washington, in Clausewitz, in General Hagood, in Colonel Lawrence, who regretted a victorious battle because he knew the enemy would have surrendered in a few days without one. But the militaristic point of view (exemplars: Foch, Weygand, Leonard Wood) leads to situations like the Dreyfus case...
Smeterlin is recognized as one of the most brilliant interpreters of Chopin...
...third day, Champion Hoppe clicked off a run of 169, two nights later two runs of 85 and 94. The best Champion Schaefer could run was 137. Champion Hoppe retained his championship, 3,000 to 2,567, despite a last day rally in which Champion Schaefer returned to brilliant form...
...Taken in brilliant flashes of light of as brief a duration as one one-millionth of a second, both still and motion pictures will be shown. Professor Edgerton will exhibit the equipment and explain the technique he employed in this particular branch of photography...