Word: superbness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Only a superb mind could note and keep track of all those people, all their attributes, all their movements. Albert Einstein's is such a superb mind...
...supporting band of 150,000 men, each schooled in some useful trade (TIME, July 2). Just now the new Nationalist Government of China is engaged in disbanding its total armies of 1,500,000 men; and Marshal Feng, as the Nationalist War Minister, cannot very well keep his own superb force together while the others disband, without some excellent excuse. Last week he seemed to have found it in a word: SHANTUNG...
...last, but when pencils scratch and honor disappears, Conrad has gone too. Blank spaces must be left for the honor: Ronald Colman, adventurer, loves Lily Damita, wife of another, but tries to preserve her ____; besides, he has sworn on his ______ to restore a certain Rajah to his throne. Even superb photography cannot make more than a routine film out of this brooding but somehow unreal and tormented story. Best shot: Capt. Jorgensen blowing up the ammunition ship...
Last week, brilliant, rich and potent Chinaman Sze received a cablegram at Washington where he has been Chinese Minister for eight years. At once socially popular Mme. Sze told her servants to pack?everything! Priceless bronzes, her own superb gowns, the first and second best Ming vases, and Dr. Sze's well-worn poker chips?everything...
Francis Bacon. "He was no striped frieze; he was shot silk. The detachment of speculation, the intensity of personal pride, the uneasiness of nervous sensibility, the urgency of ambition, the opulence of superb taste-these qualities, blending, twisting, flashing together, gave to his secret spirit the subtle and glittering superficies of a serpent. . . . The music sounds, and the great snake rises, and spreads its hood, and leans and hearkens, swaying in ecstasy; and even so the Lord Chancellor, in the midst of some great sentence, some high intellectual confection, seems to hold his breath in a rich beatitude, fascinated...