Word: superbness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first game, Lenhart started off with a superb exhibition of front-wall shots and swamped Rawlins 15 to 6. Using the same tactics, he captured the second game 15 to 9. In the third, however, Rawlins adopted a system of drop shots and corner shots which put a decided cramp in Lenhart's style. Rawlins pressed his advantage and pulled ahead, winning 15 to 10. From this point Rawlins' touch steadily improved, and he won the next game 15 to 11. In the last game he quickly forged ahead of Lenhart and defeated...
...living. His own ugliness was stamped on his frame; why should he gloss the deformity that twitched in the minds of those he saw, revealed by an expression, a turn of a head, an angle of a body? He painted with the bitter, malign mastery of a superb satirist. His three chef-d'?uvres?Le Moulin Rouge, Femme dans un Atelier, La Pierreuse?were included in the Manhattan exhibit...
...week's guest conductor, gave a perfectly terrible performance of Weber's Oberon overture, and a very good one of those Handel concerti grossi. He took the first movement of Chykovsky's* Fifth Symphony faster than he should, sentimentalized the second, was too slow in the third and was superb in the fourth. The concert ended with the Tannhauser overture as usual...
...second act is the best part of the show, and it is superb. During it Denise goes to her husbands office, followed by her lover, and breaks up the domestic scene between M. Sobier and his fiance. At the close of the act Miss Claire was given eight curtain calls...
...posts. A sudden bustle, the opening of doors, the trampling of many feet, and down the red-carpeted stairs came King George and Queen Mary. After they had entered the coach and the door had been ceremoniously closed, order was quietly passed along to the postilions and "the most superb carriage ever built" rolled on to the Houses of Parliament in Westminster...