Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ahead of his time.* Byron was a professional prizefighter but, like Tunney, he was contaminated by literature, music and the arts. He happened to fall in love with an heiress who combined an income of ?40,000 a year with an interest in Spinoza. In the ring Cashel was superb; Lydia once heard him raging like a lion: "'Rules be d-d, he bit me, and I'll throw...
Whether it was completely digested or not, it was obvious to sideline quarterbacks that it was the spice of Harlow coaching that enabled the Crimson to slip by its heavier, more experienced opponents. Even the superb line play of Eddie Davis, Ned Dewey, Chuck Glynn, and Jack Fisher would not have won the ball game without that last-minute trick of inserting southpaw, Tom Gannon, to fake a left end run and fling a pass just over the goal...
With just five performances, modest Camilla Williams, now in her mid-twenties, has become the most talked-of postwar Cho-Cho-San. When she first sang the role last spring, critics were excited. Last week her performance was described with such superlatives as "rarely gifted," "remarkable," "superb...
Henry V--at the Esquire--All you've heard and more; a sensational script, superb acting and direction by Olivier and company, the best settings and music in screen history, and technicolor at no extra charge. You'll like it, so throw away your prejudices...
...mind stepping this way . . . Mrs. Timson?" said the man who opened the door. He escorted her through a series of splendid rooms in which the furniture was embellished with the coronet of English nobility. At last Mrs. Timson came to a bedroom and saw, propped in a superb bed, a woman whose face was known to every reader of high-society news. Soon after, Mrs. Timson left the aristocratic mansion as discreetly as she had come-but with a fee of ?400 nestling in her purse...