Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know nothing of politics. However, I might give you a little gossip of Washington. There are two sides of the field there, a very brilliant administrative side and a legislative side which is-well, a little foggy. That is a nautical term...
...grant her citizenship. In the U. S. Supreme Court, whither the case was carried, Mme. Schwimmer writhed with resentment as Acting U. S. Solicitor-General Alfred A. Wheat told the court that, if "an ordinary American housewife" held her beliefs it wouldn't matter, but that in the "brilliant Schwimmer mind'' those same beliefs were dangerous...
...Justice Holmes, a most liberal and learned member of the high court, dissented with brilliant vigor, drawing Justices Brandeis and Sanford to his reasoning. Because Mme. Schwimmer believed ardently in peace at any price, Mr. Justice Holmes could see no reason to deny her citizenship on that account. Declared...
...events, here are four men who feel that Capri's air should be known to all the world even at the cost of trouble to themselves. In other words, Mr. Young, assisted by Norman Douglas, Louis Golding and R. R. Reynolds, have translated Cerio's work in their characteristically brilliant...
White will probably pitch for the visitors, with Pool being held in the relief role. The former has a reputation for pitching six or seven innings of brilliant ball and weakening in the eighth. Pool has pitched two good games this year, one against Providence College...