Word: inferiorated
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...belonging to Sponsor Louis), the Utica Riding Club Horse Show was not far different from the flashy horse shows it tried to ape. No. 1 judge of the show, W. C. Overton, whose regular job is supervising the paddock at the Detroit racetrack, thought Joe Louis' form far inferior in the show ring to the prize ring, awarded him a third-place yellow ribbon in the five-gaited saddle class...
...OVERTURE No. 2 (London Symphony, Felix Weingartner conducting; Columbia: 4 sides). For his opera Fidelia, fastidious, hardworking Beethoven wrote four different overtures. Of these the first, in point of time, was the one now mislabeled Leonore No. 2. Overshadowed by the brilliant Leonore No. 3, to which it is inferior, Leonore No. 2 has long awaited recording...
...amused when he told them the South had no university that approached the scholarly eminence of Harvard, Chicago, Columbia, California, Yale or any of a score of institutions in the North and West. They were shocked when brash Mr. Embree asserted that today the South is producing not only inferior scholars and gentlemen but indifferent judges of whiskey. Said he: "When the concepts of this phrase were widely realized in the lives of her sons, the South bristled with distinction. In so far as these ideals have fallen into desuetude, the South has drifted into mediocrity. This . . . section will regain...
...ever before. In the season just closing, exhibitors had heard far too often the ugly noises made by disapproving audiences; their pocketbooks were feeling pinched. Some exhibitors thought the trouble lay with stars who seemed to be "boxoffice poison" (TIME, May 16). Most of them knew the real trouble: inferior pictures. Meanwhile the Government has cast a quizzical eye over Hollywood's trade practices. While film circles last week rumored that the $2,000,000,000 cinema industry was slated for official arraignment, a Hollywood lobby in Washington fought to prevent the Neely bill, already passed by the Senate...
Laurence Housman's latest memoir of his late brother contains a brief (104-page), eminently unsatisfactory biographical note, whose tantalizing omissions are half discretion, half plain lack of knowledge; a few unpublished letters; 31 poems, their general level far inferior to Housman's sensibly strict standard; and the best Housman parody (by Hugh Kingsmill) extant...