Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What do they think of union-needling Columnist Westbrook Pegler? Pungent examples: "Westbrook Pegler is a knight in brilliant array who should be knocked from his horse." "A sour-vinegar writer . . . who exposes the abuses of labor unions without giving due account to the good work that most unions...
...flied out. Tom Sullivan then pasted a mighty triple over the right flelder's head scoring Essayan. Bill Harford followed with a single and drove in Sullivan. But the inning was ended with a fluke double play, as Senseney hit a long ball to right, and Page made a brilliant catch and doubled Harford off first...
...friend, but it requires a very fine nature . . . to sympathize with a friend's success." Biographer Pearson's sympathy is broad enough to cover both aspects of Wilde's career. He has chosen to stress Wilde the drawing-room wit, the extravagant fop, the brilliant author of comedies as sparkling as any ever written for the English stage...
...hardly separable, however true it may be that the mere heat of the one does not account for the light of the other. Pearson's explanations explain very little. He thinks that Wilde's emotional nature never developed "beyond adolescence"; hence Wilde always remained "an exceptionally brilliant undergraduate, half boy, half genius." Nevertheless, he adds, Wilde was "very much in love" with Constance Lloyd when they married in 1884, and "delighted" in Cyril and Vyvyan, their two sons, born a few years later.* Wilde, moreover, according to Pearson, did not become a "practicing" homosexual until after the children...
...most brilliant fielding play of the day was by Harford in the fifth. The sailors had men on first and third, when Mayers clouted a short fly into right-center field. Harford made a running one handed catch of what looked like a sure hit, and then tossed an excellent peg to catch the blue-jacket trying to score from third, retiring the side and ending the Navy's only serious threat with only two runs...