Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...motet "Laudati Pueri" into a rich orchestral background, while the other modern piece, the "Valse Nobles" of Schubert, was an arranger's field day. First written by Schubert as a set of piano waltzes it was later fitted out with an original obligato for female voices by a brilliant and unpronounceable Pole, Mandyczewski, and to complete the picture, the piano part was then arranged for orchestra...
...powerful preventive against pneumonia, influenza and other respiratory diseases may be promised by a brilliant series of experiments conducted during the last three years at the University of Chicago's Billings Hospital. Dr. Oswald Hope Robertson last week was making final tests with a new germicidal vapor-propylene glycol-to sterilize air. If the results so far obtained are confirmed, one of the age-old searches of man will finally achieve its goal...
...although shipbuilders may not launch their full quota, repair yards this year have set a new and brilliant record. In a recent twelve-month period they overhauled and refitted some 5,500 ships (of over 1,000 tons each) and they did this in the incredibly short time of an average of 17 days per ship...
...Hide-and-Seek was David and Goliath, just completed. The picture appears to be a highly colored masterly rendering of Vermont in autumn. But ingeniously concealed in the background is the head of Goliath. A tree contains the figure of David. Other outstanding items in the show: a brilliant portrait of Poet Charles Henri Ford with its exquisite hands; an original gouache of Helena Rubinstein, her face covered in sequins and lighted from the front by a splash of phosphorus; a colossal Phenomena, a hodgepodge of bodies with the focus on feet and midsections, which stunned New York and London...
...Robert Standish" is a pseudonym for an Englishman about whom the publishers say they know nothing. The Three Bamboos is a novelized version of the history of Japan's famed House of Mitsui (Japanese for "The Three Wells"). It pictures that family as a succession of brilliant, cruel and profoundly devious fanatics, a power in Japan, dedicated for 50 years to a gamble for world conquest...