Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...William learned Latin and Greek on backless benches in chilly rooms among fellow students who referred to his father as "a beast, but a just beast." "Fat Willie Temple'' was both precocious and impish. From Rugby he went on to Balliol College, Oxford, where he made a brilliant academic record and became president of the Oxford Union...
Dividing Point. In 1944 the Red Army confidently expected no further repetitions of World War I's East Prussian history. In 1914 the team of Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, his brilliant chief of staff General Erich Ludendorff and chief of operations General Max Hoffmann had gone to the rescue of the Reich's defeated army, and made Hindenburg an immortal among Junkers. Among East Prussia's lakes Hindenburg trapped the Russians, cut them to pieces...
Died. Richard Bennett, 71, famed actor, father of Barbara, Constance and Joan; after long illness; in Los Angeles. Indiana-born descendant of a line of Methodist preachers, he was brilliant in many hits (Barrie's What Every Woman Knows, Howard's They Knew What They Wanted, Anderson's Winterset). Like his good friend the late John Barrymore, he was a notorious eccentric (his alleged favorite sport: frightening Boy Scouts). He characterized himself as "an honest actor within my limits, counterfeiting as conscientiously as I know how the spurious creatures of the drama...
Teresa finally finds fulfillment in the arms of her employer, one James Quick. Readers who follow the searchlight of Australian Author Stead's brilliant verbiage into every depth and cranny of her heroine's complex spirit will find themselves wondering if she has not overdone a good thing. In a tireless effort to prove Teresa's typicality, Miss Stead has made her a singularly atypical case...
Gaining its fourth straight triumph, the Crimson varsity eleven trounced a heavy but inexperienced Boston College team, 13 to 0, to conclude the pre-vacation football season before 43,000 cheering fans Saturday afternoon at Soldiers Field. Sparked by brilliant line play, the Lamarmen outran, outpassed, and outmaneuvered the Eagles to gain the victory under a blazing October...