Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...injury put a crimp in Dartmouth's plan for season-long domination of the Eastern Hockey League. The brilliant forward line of Rondeau, Billy Riley and Bill Harrison has been broken, and the replacement may impair the efficiency with which this trio has slashed its way to the limelight in Eastern rink circles...
...religious perceptions, useful as far as they go, are rudimentary. His prose ranges between brilliant neo-Menckenism and embarrassing vulgarity. Too often, when he intends to insult the reader's stupidity, he insults his intelligence instead. But Author Wylie's book might be of far greater importance than its own intrinsic worth if readers in any appreciable numbers would act seriously on his old and central recommendation-"know thyself"-as well as on a thing he fails to recommend-the study of those quieter, subtler, maturer diagnosticians who are casing the same field...
...forefathers of this Boston Brahmin two Massachusetts mill towns are named. His older brother Percival discovered the canals of Mars and the planet Pluto. His younger sister was the cigar-smoking poetess Amy. At Harvard young Lawrence was a brilliant student of mathematics and never lost a foot race. Still proud of his fitness some 50 years later, he one day challenged Lord Bryce (The American Commonwealth) to climb a picket fence built around the Harvard athletic field. Bryce declined, but Lowell nimbly scrambled over...
...antique Harvard chinaware, laying out new Yard walks with a bundle of stakes and twine. He inherited a large fortune and fattened it judiciously (except when he lost $194,412 in Kreuger & Toll). He endowed (with some $1,000,000) the Harvard Society of Fellows-a group of 24 brilliant young men who are lodged in the "Houses" and paid $1,250 to $1,500 annually for three years so that they can pursue graduate studies unencumbered by formal Ph.D. requirements...
...tangible is no mean achievement. Director Dieterle's split-second direction is partly responsible, but chief credit goes to Actors Barrymore and Heflin. As fanatical, silver-tongued Thaddeus Stevens, Lionel Barrymore gives one of the best performances of his long career. Van Heflin's job is a brilliant tour de force. A veteran of second-rate Hollywood films (Seven Sweethearts, Grand Central Murder) and of the stage Philadelphia Story, he has his first big chance as Andrew Johnson...