Word: superably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...room overlooking a park or "a remarkable panorama," he charged himself 1.1, but reduced it if he could see only "a wide street or court or a stretch of grass at least 15 meters wide and without obstructions [not counting trees]." For a really super-duper view he boosted the factor to 1.3. (Cracked the Canard Enchainé, witty Paris weekly: "What's the coefficient for a view of Mistinguette's legs...
...even garbagy blighted areas, they have no proper basis for judging Stuyvesant Town ... If one judges housing not in terms of rents and profits and prestige but in terms of human decency, the greater part of New York consists, in Patrick Geddes' words, of slums, semi-slums, and super-slums . . . They praise Stuyvesant Town only because they do not know how much is missing from its design...
...field commanders by long-distance telephone. One day last week he drove through the cold rain to the cavernous National Assembly building, 20 minutes later emerged smiling. He had persuaded liberal Sun Fo, son of China's revered revolutionary leader Sun Yatsen, to become Premier in a new super war cabinet. Asked if the government planned to leave Nanking, Chiang said that no such plan was being considered. He bade Chinese remember the deathbed words of Sun Yatsen: "You shall never yield to the enemy...
Maybe MGM was only fooling, and really trying to prove that super-swashbuckling is a superb form of screen humor. And yet there are some dreadful little moments, when the actors suddenly become deadpan, straining to get a dull point across. But these scenes are few, and fairly short. When they intrude, just think back a piece and remember D'Artagnan as he points his poinard to the sky and shouts "All for one!" and his comrades raise their rapiers and reply...
...newsmen who had never seen Dave Beck before were a little startled, not only by his mild and self-effacing performance, but by his personal appearance. His quiet, expensive clothes, his full-toothed smile, his bland face, his high-pitched, almost boyish voice, gave him the aura of a super-Rotarian booster right out of Main Street. But his eyes-cold, blue and direct-explained him more fully...