Word: excellent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maurice Sterne's Approaching Storm and William Thon's Life Saving Station looked bigger than they actually were. Each was a first-rate example of a kind of impressionism U.S. painters seem to excel at-somber, broadly painted pictures of nature in turmoil...
Double Check. In Kansas City, officials of the Excel Office Supply & Equipment Co. sought the man who paid for a check-protecting machine with a bum check...
...dirt coughing blood, unable to move, and shouts of "a hundred to ten" against his chances floated through the pit. His enemy, the red, picked and kicked at him. Then, with the kind of blind tenacity that seems to excel a human's, the grey came back. Almost 40 minutes later, he won over the red. Next morning, another of Kehoe's grey muffs came back from the dead to clinch first prize ($7,000) of the Orlando tournament for Kehoe. Glowed rough, tough old John Kehoe: "Cockfighting has added ten years to my life...
...Marx brothers are survivals of a vanishing era. They, together with buffoons Bobby Clark and Bert Lahr, and screenmen Laurel and Hardy, are the last of a unique school of slapstick comedians. Spawned in old-time vaudeville and burlesque, the brothers excel in the highly specialized arts of pantomime, pie throwing, and provocative leering at women, while our present generation of couriers relies chiefly on flip lines and artless mugging. Slapstick is passing out of existence, but not out of date. Until a new generation of wits rediscover the art, go down to the Laffmovie and rear at the last...
Franck: Symphonic Variations (Eileen Joyce, pianist, with 1'Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris, Charles Münch conducting; Decca Record Co. Ltd., 4 sides). Few could excel Walter Gieseking's fine performance of this popular work; Miss Joyce didn't. Recording: good...