Word: superbness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems, on cool reflection, too crude to be true. But audiences do not reflect any more coolly during this picture than they did when the play was a stage hit 19 years ago. Lionel Barrymore capably directed a fine cast which includes Lewis Stone and is distinguished by the superb acting of Ruth Chatterton. Best shot: Miss Chatterton telling her troubles in a cafe...
...fact that 1921 was a "great year" not only for Châateau Yquem but for almost every white wine of note in France or Germany. Memorable too are Châateau Lafite 1920 and Châateau Haut-Brion 1921. Due to the craze for Champagne, these superb red and white Bordeaux, the wines of connoisseurs, sell commonly for a trifle less than a good bot tle of "bubbly." Of course Bordeaux of the very oldest and greatest years, such as Châateau Yquem 1874 or Châateau Haut-Brion 1875, are well nigh unobtainable...
...triumphs of Peace must be ranked the Fatherland's astounding feat of building 3,000,000 tons of shipping in the decade since the War. The summer of 1929 was to have seen German mercantile prestige finally restored with added lustre by the completion of two new and superb liners, the Bremen and the Europa, expected to be fastest in the World (TIME, Aug. 27). There was a great swelling throb of joy in the solemn throat of Old Paul von Hindenburg as he launched the Bremen with these words: "Seventy years ago [when President Hindenburg...
Giuliano was only a mediocre Medici. In any other family he might have been superb. But the Medicis were a flamboyant line, running to both seraphic and sulphurous extremes. Giuliano's father was Lorenzo the Magnificent, mighty patron of the arts and writer of bawdy ditties, a politically high-minded ruler whose actions were tyrannous. Giuliano's brother was Pope Leo X, a dilettante and politician who palely reflected his father's glories. Giuliano himself had the aquiline features and dark locks of his tribe. But he did not have the spouting energy. He met and married...
recites Douglas Fairbanks from the sound-device as prolog to The Iron Mask (United Artists), his sequel to The Three Musketeers. The voice, like all filmed voices, creaks a little, but the spirit which the poetry fails to achieve is incorporated in the superb acrobatics of the only living actor who is also a great athlete. He has his best rôle again ? D'Artagnan. Cardinal Richelieu, crafty, red-robed, plots endlessly to separate the four swashbucklers who at night sleep side by side in one wide bed and finally die side by side in one battle. Under...