Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through the Dakotas, Iowa, Nebraska, east to Wisconsin, on to New York, rolling, rolling; the landscape still brilliant with autumn, but the greens no longer fresh, the reds beginning to fade...
...Condemned to death after being returned from France were Cipriano Rivas Cherif, brilliant dramatist, lawyer, diplomat; Julián Zugazagoitia, Basque firebrand, deputy, editor, historian, Minister of the Interior in the last Republican Government; Antonio Cruz Salido, onetime Secretary of the Spanish Socialist Party; Carlos Montilla y Escudero, onetime Director of Spanish Railways, Loyalist Counselor in Havana; Miguel Salvador y Carreras, famed music critic, co-founder of the Madrid Philharmonic Society, Loyalist Chargé d'Affaires in Copenhagen. Over their bodies, the Spain of Franco aspires to a "prominent place over the ruins of Europe...
Like many press-association dispatches, Author Gramling's book is clear, accurate, but not brilliant. He is apt to sacrifice speed of narrative for the sake of coverage. He is polite to rival agencies, balances Roy Howard's famed false flash on the Armistice that ended World War I by telling of AP's false report of the Hauptmann trial verdict...
...brilliant soldier, he was sometimes detested by his officers. Kitchener would not speak to him. A fighter by second nature, he was at one time a pacifist by conviction. A Conservative by heredity, he earned the undying hatred of Conservatives for bolting to Lloyd George's Liberals. Twenty years later he bolted from the Liberals. He introduced into Parliament many of Britain's most important social measures. Labor called him "traitor." Reason: as Minister of Munitions in World War I, Churchill told striking munition workers that if they were dissatisfied with conditions on the job, they could...
...case where he told Bob Madry, Carolina's news bureau director, in 1937 that Andy Bershak was the greatest end he ever coached, and then, a day or two later, said the same thing to Alan Gould, then sports editor of the Associated Press, about Brud Holland, Cornell's brilliant Negro end who had a shot on the AP All-American. Then he denied making the first statement. He was going like...