Word: splendide
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...June 18, 1940, after the fall of Holland, Belgium and France, German Ambassador to Moscow Count von der Schulenburg reported: "Molotov . . . expressed the warmest congratulations of the Soviet government on the splendid success of the German armed forces...
...entirely credible sister, devoid of the sentimentality that usually befouls religious characters in the movies. David Farrar and Flora Robson play with skill and vitality, while Jean Simmons, the Estella of "Great Expectations," is magnificent as a sensuous Indian girl. Technicolor is made the most of, with some splendid photographic effects, and the only serious fault to be found is that the pace is sometimes too slow. It is a great pity that a picture so excellent in execution and so religious in theme should be chopped up by the censors...
...Francisco Chronicle's Critic Alfred Frankenstein couldn't wait to get to his typewriter. After glowing words for Violinist Spivakovsky,* Frankenstein wrote: "This is conceivably the greatest violin concerto since Brahms . . . noble, rich and splendid . . . blazing display music for [a] soloist to conquer...
Thanks for the splendid cover story on Rebecca West [TIME, Dec. 8]. . . . However, I think you did the good lady an injustice by failing to mention her coverage of the mass lynch trials at Greenville, S.C., last spring. . . . Not only was her writing style superb, but as a reporter she dug up facts that none of the rest of us were able to uncover, angles that we of the deadline-plagued, spot-news journalism missed in passing...
Then the boss brought forth the man he had chosen to take over Tom Stewart's job: Circuit Judge John A. Mitchell, 52, of Cookerville. Mister Crump had never even met his candidate. But what difference did that make? Roared Mister Crump: "Everybody says he has a splendid record." Once called to public attention, Judge Mitchell looked like a natural, indeed. He was a mountain man, tall (6 ft. 3 in.), lean and deliberate-something like Cordell Hull, over whose old court he now presided. He had won a D.S.C. in World War I, had served three years...