Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...superb Saturday afternoon From the moment that the first French Horn strains echoed from Appleton Chapel back to the band arrayed on Widener steps till the crowd followed Mcl Holmes, his baton, and his orchestra over the Lars Anderson Bridge into the ever ever land that is Cambridge on a triumphant Saturday night, there was never a doubt but that a wonderful time...
Illustrated with a series of superb plates by Alfred Jacob Miller, Charles Bodmer, and George Catlin, "Across the Wide Missouri" is a comprehensive study that flows with the case of a good novel. Mr. Devote's excellent style makes history a pleasure. G.G.D...
...Goldovsky deserves credit not only for the staging of the opera and the general management of the enterprise, but especially for his conducting. the orchestra, though not enormous made Mozart's superb instrumental passages stand out Sunday as they seldom do, with the winds particularly good; and the entire opera was done with real spirit and good humor. "Don Giovanni" and "Idomenco" are next on the list in this Mozartean year; Mr. Goldovsky's treatment of their more difficult problems is awaited with interest and confidence. J.A.L
...Chapp is much less shifty than his predecessor Tom Harmon, although last year his combined running and passing (for 1,235 yds.) far outstripped Harmon's best total. He is a heavy-legged, hippy runner along the lines of "Flatfoot Frank" Sinkwich, late of Georgia. He is a superb faker and a hard tackier. But he has one weakness-pass defense-which keeps him on the bench when the enemy has the ball. The way Chapp explains it": "You have to smell where to go on pass defense-and my sniffer's not too good...
...lived the rest of her days on the Continent, never bothered to speak anything except English. Her favorite word was "superb," which she applied equally to Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn and her favorite brand of unscented soap. She detested "Bohemianism, quaintness, affectation, whimsy, and-above all-effeteness." In art she tried to live up to her favorite Chinese maxim: "One should draw as if engraving a slab of rock crystal with a diamond point...