Word: superbness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Negro children playing funeral, or the drowning of a Russian Jew at Coney Island? They are surely not of national interest and to me they smack strongly of the sensationalism of Hearst. They are merely gruesome incidents that disclose the morbid mind of a pig sticker delighting in his superb ability to portray the horrible...
Then, pattering eagerly ahead, he led them to a tiny door, opened it, revealed a dark ascending stair. "This stairway leads," said the Abbe Loubiere, "to the dome. There the view is truly superb. Come!" Last week the Abbe gathered newspapermen about him on the steps of the Sacre Coeur, confided eagerly...
...Monte Carlo that she is honest, the Shuberts have cast two capable performers. Mitzi, light-footed, long-haired, emerges from the dim past to yodel stale lines with broad vocal nuances. About her plump, Hungarian person the show revolves. From Stanley Lupino, English comedian, it draws its light. This superb clown flashes one of the season's gems in his sensational disclosure of the shocking impotence of Calvin Coolidge, Alfred Smith and Lloyd George, none of whom can lay eggs, grow ostrich feathers, or sit like a house fly in the saccharine stickiness of a raspberry tart. The chorus...
...Again God has saved Italy! Mussolini is unhurt. From his post of command, to which he returned immediately with the superb calm which no event can change, he has given us the order: No reprisals...
...William Alexander Kinglake, famed British 19th century explorer lusciously described Damascus in his Eothen: "Close along on the Abanah river's edge through seven sweet miles of rustling boughs and superb shade, the city spreads her whole length as a man falls flat, face forward, in the brook that he may drink and drink again; so Damascus, thirsty forever, lies down with her lips to the stream and clings to its rustling waters." Tradition ascribes to Damascus the title "oldest city in the world...