Word: superably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gods Depart. The Man of the Year would not be found among the very great. The super-criminals and benevolent dreamers, the movers and shakers of the 1930s and of the war years had died or stepped back toward the shadows. Stalin still had more power than any man alive, but he wielded it increasingly through others, conserved his strength and (reportedly) worked on his memoirs like any good, grey 19th Century British empire-builder. Churchill was still the world's greatest orator,* but a statesman's words, unlike a poet's, need power to give them...
Jones gets uneasy when Editor Guy Schofield suggests that he drop his column for a while and turn to something else. He did agree to cover part of the Nürnberg trials, but floundered badly among the super criminals, and was as happy as his readers when he got back to his raffish, minor-rogues' gallery...
Southward Ho! After this auspicious start, Ribbentrop and Molotov quickly drafted a plan to make Russia a fourth major member of the Axis. They also agreed that the agreement confirming this should have two super-secret protocols...
...Boston "Pops" Orchestra, announced that he Would soon broadcast for the first time a new suite based on eight 20th Century ''folk tunes." The title: Jingles All the Way, No. 2.* The composer: Canadian Howard Cable. The themes: the Dentyne, Adam Hat, Colgate, Richfield Oil, Super Suds, Chiclets, Pepsodent singing commercials, plus the Mortimer Snerd leitmotiv from the Edgar Bergen show...
...Chaplin once, in The Gold Rush, broke the underlying significance of his role and spoiled a great film. He forgot Chariot the outcast to become a millionaire and marry the girl, like any John Gilbert or Ronald Colman. Clowns cannot possibly stoop to such romance. They are, in essence, super realists . . . tragedians in disguise. Their endings are happy for everyone but themselves...