Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disorder at the top of the War Department improved neither their morale nor their respect for civilian democracy. Two years between his upper and nether bosses brought Chief of Staff Malin Craig near to distraction and collapse before he got out last June and turned his cross over to brilliant, patient General George Catlett Marshall...
...well-dressed boy with a veddy, veddy English accent and a brace of dimples he can switch on and off like headlights. His limpid life is complicated by a two-father complex. Father No. 1 (and sire) is Duke (pronounced Dook) Allen (Richard Dix), Stafford 1917, football, track, a brilliant writer who 20 years later is still winding up Chapter Four of his first novel. Father No. 2 is a famous lawyer (George Zucco) who married David's mother (Gladys George) after she left Duke for nonpayment of rent, has brought David up sheltered from the realities of life...
Born. To Yehudi Menuhin, 22, blond, brilliant violinist, and Nola Nicholas Menuhin, 20; a daughter; in San Francisco, Calif. The child, which weighed six pounds, twelve ounces, was given the name Zamira. the Russian word for Peace. Said Father Yehudi, who had watched the operation with a surgical mask over his face: "I want the baby to hate music or love it. I don't want any passivity...
Gonzales, of the Swedish-American outfit, considered one of the ace soccer players in the country, gave the Crimson plenty of trouble most of the afternoon but much of his brilliant work was offset by the remarkable saves of Penson, the Harvard goalie...
...fall is available. Had not Ray Anderson, a Junior, run afoul of scholastic ineligibility the outlook might be brighter. For Pond's chief need is what has come to be known since the invasion of Poland as a blitzkrieg back, and Anderson came near filling the bill in his brilliant appearances against Princeton and Harvard last Fall...