Word: superbness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...point the new Nationalist State, not yet recognized by any Great Power, stood badly in need of such moral support as could be given, for example, by the U. S. To a certain blatant U. S. newspaper publisher must go the credit for signing and publishing, last week, a superb, soaring overstatement of what was in the hearts of many U. S. friends of China, as follows: Give China her recognition quickly, sympathetically, heartily. It is only one hundred and fifty years since we were winning our own independence. There may be a time when complications with Japan...
PORGY?Negro tragedy made lively by the acting of a cast whose color will not run, under the superb direction of Rouben Mamoulian (TIME...
...more magnificent sentences, Senator Ashurst enunciated the whole spirit of a filibusterer, as follows: "Although of superb physical strength, you can take the heart even out of an elephant, the stomach out of an ostrich, and you may finally pierce the hide of a rhinoceros if you keep at him so great a time as the long and weary months that I have been practically on the gridiron, trying to prevent the great injustice this bill would perpetrate upon Arizona...
...combination; Clarence Dillon to be chairman of the directors' finance committee; Edward G. WTilmer to be president. Mr. Wilmer, by training a lawyer, has been Dodge Bros, president since Clarence Dillon took control in 1925. Mr. Dillon made Mr. Wilmer a Dillon-Read partner. He is a superb executive, the sort of man Mr. Chrysler himself is, except that Mr. Chrysler is also an automotive engineer almost without equal...
...This superb experiment in photography was made by the German branch of the William Fox Co., and Carl Mayer. One of the men at the cameras was Karl Freund, who was largely responsible for the shooting of Variety. Spectators of Berlin were made a little dizzy, but they hated to close their eyes...