Word: superbness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...carry off his bride-to-be, however, the irresistible Juan must snatch her from the clutches of the notorious Borgias. In doing so, Actor Barrymore slashes and dashes through several reels that will possibly cause Douglas Fairbanks to bite his finger nails. With all due respect to the superb acting of Mr. Barrymore, no sane adult can be expected to accept such revolution of character and such extravagant heroics, unless some overpowering agency transports him into a world of pure illusion. But, as a girl in the fifth row said, "Still an' all, he is good-looking." Padlocked (Lois...
...Ninth Vibration, etc.) and simultaneously as biographer of the Duchess of Fenton (The Chaste Diana), Lady Hamilton (The Divine Lady) and Poet Byron (Glorious Apollo). Her periods billow out like fussy, over-embroidered crinolines when she is in her role of sentimental raconteuse, but the historical reconstructions are superb-Playwright Sheridan scratching his wig for the fourth act of The School for Scandal; George III and Queen Charlotte reading their favorite divines under the lindens at Kew; and Perdita, fluffed in swan's-down, waiting for the flushed royal moron who brought her low; Perdita, at last a wanton...
...organized the dread Communist "Cheka," or "Extraordinary Commission," an agency of suppression, destruction and terror, an agency of superb, fiendish efficiency. While the Tsarol police had favored the living death of Siberia for their victims, Dzerzhinsky, merciful perhaps, signed death warrants literally by the bale. "There is no god but the Cheka, and Dzerzhinsky is its pope!" became a black byword in the years...
...MEDICINE). However, his publishers have asked him to "discover America" as he did England (My Discovery of England, 1922), and it would indeed be surprising if circumstances could permanently stifle the prolific originality that has spurted from his pen for 16 years, and that has lately been applied, with superb detachment, to such a grim...
Some centuries ago a legendary Japanese mare of superb perfection committed the unnatural act of kicking to death all of the many stallions brought to her in an effort to obtain an especially fine breed of horses. Appalled by the mare's actions, pious Nipponese noted the position of the constellations and rashly predicted that all female children born under this "Sign of the Horse" would cause the death of their husbands...