Word: superbness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Montreal Mr. George burst into golf. A correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor saw him make three perfect shots-a long, straight drive, a magnificent approach and a superb and final putt. Moved by sheer admiration the correspondent approached...
...narrative of events, events which Mr. Asquith tried to control. He does not defend his actions and rarely resorts to criticizing the actions of others. His book is a record of events, the facts of which are marshaled in orderly array; it is history written like a superb piece of prêcis writing; no verbosity, no propaganda, no distortion, just the truth and facts. It is just the sort of book that unromantic, academic Mr. Asquith might have been expected to write...
...costumes are glittering and colorful; Katharine Cornell, superb; Lowell Sherman, sedulously rakish...
...Yale game with North Carolina, the Comment is: "If there was any weakness displayed by Yale it was that of the kickers. O'Hearn's work was superb but his understudies are poor"; and of the Princeton John Hopkins game, "Not one of Princeton's punters showed the necessary speed in getting off his kicks, with the result that almost half a dozen attempts were blocked or booted into the opposing players...
...almost incredible performance by an author who has written one superb novel? and done work that is both interesting and fine in other literary fields?very nearly the most puerile book pretending to deal with America yet written by a visiting European...