Word: superbness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last Summer in the Vermont mountains. She was to deliver a series of addresses on the craft of writing. She spent days in careful thought and preparation. She walked alone in the woods and fields. Her talks are said to have been superb. The students literally worshipped her. It was this tremendous force of hers, breaking through an equally tremendous reserve, that made her lectures so inspiring...
Alexander Woollcott: "Really superb work by Mary Newcomb...
...Adam. Mr. Barnard has been at work on the piece several years. The legend is current in art circles that at one time the elder Rockefeller was opposed to the nude in sculpture and would have none of it in his collection. Barnard's own superb masculine nude, The Hewer, may have had something to do with the magnate's conversion, for Rockefeller was so struck that he bought it for his own gardens...
Forth from the White House followed by innumerable attendants, Mr. and Mrs. Warren G. Harding set out on a 1,500 mile journey to Alaska and return. A seven car train, with a specially built car, the Superb, embodying a rear platform rostrum, and a reception room, and a communication department completely equipped for telephone, telegraph and radio communication, carried the President's party...
...honor, which leads to the interesting and meaningful consideration that what is possibly the highest piece of Roman liturgical music was written by the devout Lutheran, Bach, who was capelmeister at St. Thomas' Evangelical Church in Leipzig! The moral seems to be that the Mass is so superb a musical form, such a tempting subject for the composer of music, that it quite transcends any points of doctrine...