Word: superbness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there was one voice raised besides George Bernard Scrooge's. It was a superb opportunity for that professionally altruistic sheetlet the Nation, and the voice therein belonged to one Eugene Lyons. To his editor's delight, Writer Lyons burlesqued the annual spectacle of U. S. newspapers trying to outdo one another in seasonal generosity and solicitude. He pictured Prosperity, "a big, blustering fellow," momentarily obscured in the national circus by sideshows of infirmity and destitution...
Neighborhood Playhouse, 466 Grand St.-- The Little Clay Cart. This is a sparkling spirited fourth century Hindu comedy, full of naivete. It is acted by the regular company of the Neighborhood Playhouse who did such a superb piece of work in the Dybbuk. This latter play is also being acted by them now, and is well worth seeing...
Lyric, West 42nd St.--The Ramblers is another combination bill; Clark and McCullough, Marie Saxon; Ruth Tester, and Jack Whiting. Clark and McCullough are superb slapstick artsts, using the tricks of Sgannerello and Harlequin on a modern stage in a modern way. Ruth Tester glows personality. Merie Saxon and Jack Whiting prove that beauty, dancing ability, and pleasing personalities can be combined...
...Joseph Duveen's third great acquisition was Romney's portrait of Lady Elizabeth Forbes. These three, together with certain other paintings and objets d'art, cost him $1,000,000. Governor Alvan T. Fuller of Massachusetts, millionaire art collector, secured Romney's superb "Lady de la Pole" for $220,000. The sale continued three more days, but without further headlines in the press; $2,280,000 had been realized in the first two days...
Libraries may be million dollar libraries but unless they are habitable they fail in their purpose. Widener is a superb monument, and it is unfortunate that details which might be corrected should render it imperfect. The appearance of the building has been criticized but that does not impair its undoubted efficiency: the present ethereal conditions, however, do. So in addition to sweetness and light, let there...