Word: superbness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...itinerant Wagnerian Opera Com- pany went to Manhattan and encountered a mixed reception. It opened there with Die Meistersinger. That was unfortunate. It had to meet the severest and most direct competition in the superb Meistersinger which Mr. Bodanzky conducted at the Metropolitan, one of the very finest performances of this or any other season. The Wagnerian company production of the opera last season rode advantageously on the happy welcome which greeted the first performance of the work in New York for a long time. But now, with the appetite a little sated, the handicaps of a traveling...
More than 60 years old, Mme. Schumann-Heink gave a recital (in Baltimore) the other night?a recital of superb beauty. The passage of time seems scarcely to have dimmed her great voice. If you ask her the reason for it, she will tell you it is the result of living naturally. " I have never liked anything artificial," she will tell you. " Look at me. I do not use rouge. Certainly I need beautifiers more than most women. But I live by nature...
ANTIC HAY-Aldous Huxley-Doran ($2.00). Of Theodore Gumbril, sometime Oxford tutor, and his superb invention - Gumbril's Patent Pneumatic Trousers-They Protect the Lumbar Ganglia and Lend Incisive Poise to Businessmen. Of his extraordinary exploits in Love and Business, under the beaverish protection of a huge, artificial beard. Of Casimir Lypiatt, the boomingly futile would-be genius-and Shearwater, the scientist who investigated sweat- and P. Mercaptan, the snouty-faced amateur of rococo amours-and Myra Viveash with her expiring voice- and Zoe-and Emily-and Rosie-a whole horde of fantastic characters dancing the antic hay around...
...long as football requires the utmost of its men, even throwing a tiring and wounded player into a situation where he must toss away the last of his vitality in one superb rush, the game cannot reach its highest pitch as a professional sport. Coach Stagg is right in opposing questionable tactics in playing the game, but one doubts if professional football is so powerful a menace as he fears. N. Y. WORKI
...rare that a Harvard team is outplayed in every department of the game. Yet on Saturday Dartmouth was so powerful as to smother any attempted offense of the Crimson, and when on the defense, with the lone exception of Hubbard's superb playing, the Crimson forwards were dwarfted by the Green line, which found little trouble in opening holes for their backs and even swinging into the interference...