Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...golden British market. Many a British M.P. had angrily suggested that importations from Hollywood be cut. They had complained that Hollywood made $80,000,000 a year in Britain, while British pictures, even good ones, could hardly get a showing in the U.S.. Example: the superb movie Night Train grossed only $650,000 in the U.S., less than many a poor Hollywood B picture...
...sharp, and missed several notes under E, constantly attempting to find the correct pitch, which kept eluding him by inches. The tenors did not sound right, but I have since been informed that they were incorrectly placed in the Church. Sopranos, contraltos, and basses came through beautifully under superb direction to carry the day, however, and to make the performance memorable...
...letter to the SERVICE NEWS, Comdr. Morison, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, revealed that he saw the landing on Okinawa from the highest point of the U.S.S. Tennessee: he described the action as a "superb naval spectacle full of movement, life and color." The Kamikaze boys "seemed to have a special spite" against the Tennossee, and "one got through, missed me on the bridge by a few feet and crashed amidships, killing and wounding a number of fine young...
...using parables, Jesus was "a great artist, a superb storyteller, a born dramatist. . . ." In performing miracles He revealed "a God of love." But the author, who shies away from the supernatural, does not believe that Lazarus was raised from the dead. Lazarus' relatives and friends and the Gospel chronicler may have believed it, but "there is nothing [in the Biblical account] that compels us to believe that Lazarus was literally dead." Lazarus may have been brought "back to health" by Jesus' "power of mind and will" and by "the therapy of his own abundant vitality...
...Dodsworth, automobile tycoon, and his wife in the cultured lands of Europe was a modern Innocents Abroad. Elmer Gantry (dedicated to Henry L. Mencken) was a rich caricature of a corrupt and ranting preacher (as he might appear to the village atheist). In The Man Who Knew Coolidge, a superb tour de force, Lewis used his remarkable talent for mimicking U.S. speech to let George F. Babbitt (this time called Lowell Schmaltz) reveal the mind, manners and morals of Babbitry in Babbitt's native tongue...