Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Americans could find a certain parallel in their own Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. Some of its thorniest obstacles and most brilliant compromises arose out of the difference between the little states and the big ones. But the extreme range of size and power at the Philadelphia convention was from Massachusetts down to Delaware. Between them was an easy gradation in the importance of the other eleven states...
...many of them veterans of the Pacific war, man her. Among the veterans: indestructible Captain Dixie Kiefer, one of the Navy's top carrier skippers; he was severely wounded when the carrier Yorktown sank in the Battle of Midway, was seen commanding a carrier in the brilliant documentary movie The Fighting Lady and was wounded again this year in battle...
...signs indicated that Heinrich Himmler, after Hitler the No. i symbol of Naziism, had handed over the reins only when, and because, his efforts to surrender separately had failed. Donitz was an ardent Nazi, but the Allies knew him chiefly as an all-too-brilliant naval commander. He, too, failed to win a separate peace, but he had the satisfaction of seeing most of his Navy give up to the British. Only after the last German step had been taken according to German plan was an Allied check placed upon the maneuvers of Donitz and his associates in the last...
...Radio) is a double-barrelled horror picture (Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi) which Producer Val Lewton and his associates have developed from the Robert Louis Stevenson short story. Laid in Edinburgh in the 18305, it involves the tragic traffic of a young medical student (Russell Wade) and his brilliant teacher (Henry Daniell) with a grave robber who does not hesitate to murder when a cadaver is urgently needed for dissection...
...private lives of most of its British disciples. Unlike their more adaptable, more original French contemporaries, who made Paris the authentic, though wicked, art center of the world, the Britons founded no school. They simply faded out in the squalid romanticism of the "Naughty Nineties." Oscar Wilde's brilliant career came to a catastrophic end in the world's most sensational vice trial. Poet Francis Thompson, an opium addict, was reduced to destitution, and died leaving behind his minor masterpiece of repentant self-martyrdom, The Hound of Heaven. Poet James Thomson (The City of Dreadful Night) crept starving...