Word: inferiore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...career. He made a fine, fast start and led the field for a mile; then, in the backstretch, he simply quit. Said a busted bettor: "That horse is so bad off, not even a head shrinker could fix him. His trouble is he knows he's inferior...
...years: he would soon marry wraithlike Actress Julie Haydon, 44, with whom he has been keeping company for 17 years. Julie last appeared on Broadway nine years ago as a wispy cripple in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie. "The best woman," Nathan once wrote, "is the inferior of the second-best man . . . To enjoy women at all, one must manufacture an illusion and envelop them with it; otherwise they would not be endurable." Marriage, he concluded, "is based on the theory that when a man discovers a particular brand of beer exactly to his taste he should at once...
...late Actor Leslie Howard) as Holmes and H. Marion Crawford, grandson of Novelist F. Marion Crawford, as the bumbling Watson. Filmed in London and Paris by Sheldon (Foreign Intrigue) Reynolds, the opening show had a nice period flavor, but the script, written by Reynolds, was inferior to even the feeblest efforts of A. Conan Doyle...
...second problem is that of integrating the program on a nation-wide basis. If the Army did try the plan in Harvard's unit, it would only be with an eye toward adopting it in all its units. Since some schools are inferior to others in facilities, this might handicap weaker schools...
Under the Dish, a Dish. Melbourne entered the world "free from the tiresome inhibitions that are induced by a sense of inferiority." He had no need to feel inferior; he was rumored not to be the son of the first Lord Melbourne-a dull fellow-but of his mother's favorite lover, Lord Egremont. The dashing Egremont, the story went, had had to pay ?13,000 when he "bought" her from another lover, Lord Coleraine (lover and mistress, it was said, shared the proceeds...