Word: super-human
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...Army will be doing very well if that estimate is made good. If General Wesson's fears for delayed ordnance production are fulfilled, it will take more than a year to equip the Army. At super-human best, peak production on most of the schedules already drawn will not be reached before 1942. Since aircraft production has first place on these schedules, the rest of the Army can hardly expect to fare faster or better than the Air Corps...
Readers who fear political parables need not take fright; the stories in Twilight of a World are not messengers of any super-human faith. Not simply nostalgic ex-Austrians but men of good will in any land will understand and welcome them at sight. Some of them...
...crossbar. Comic high spot is a mad pianist in "The Concert Party." A lacquer-haired caricature of Negro Singer Josephine Baker, star of a "Little Tropical Revue," wiggles and shakes menacingly. In "The Bullfight," a wilder burlesque than the others, a hollow-eyed toreador fliply kills the bull with super-human mag nificence. Plump, beaming Impresario Vittorio Podrecca adapted his Piccoli ("The little ones") from traditional Italian marionets, hates to have them called marionets or puppets. Charles Dillingham first brought him and his little ones to Manhattan in 1923 when they failed dismally. Last year Podrecca came again, succeeded hugely...
...STRANGE CASE OF PETER THE LETT -Georges Simenon-Covici, Friede ($2). Inspector Maigret, mystified by duplex identity, spurred by sorrow, exhibits super-human activity, and bags...
...Aside from the fact that a newly shot alligator rarely floats, super-human strength and an extraordinary machete would be required to sever a large alligator's tail with a single blow...