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Word: superbness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chorus was superb, singing cleanly and with infectious rhythm which is the very life-blood of the music. Malcolm Holmes clear conducting could not conceal the orchestra's lack of rehearsal time but the orchestral sections were nearly adequate and will undoubtedly improve in the next two performances. The harpsichord accompaniment was very capably handled throughout by Alan Cunningham...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 3/16/1951 | See Source »

...speeches about snow in England and about understanding natives. To show contentedness he smiles abstractedly at his empty beer glass. Eventually he is domesticated by a painfully sincere missionary (Elsa Lancaster), but by then the fun is over. An incredibly clever dog unlisted in the credits gives a superb performance...

Author: By G. JEROME W. goodman, | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/9/1951 | See Source »

...superb British films now revived at the Kenmore, though entirely different in subject matter, are amazingly similar in form and background. Both are told mainly by the method of flashback, one from the psychiatrist's couch and the other from a drawing-room reverie. Both have a musical accompaniment of late Romantic period music which is always insistent and always heavy...

Author: By David L. Ratner, | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/7/1951 | See Source »

Undefeated Dartmouth barely edged out the Yardling hockey team, 3 to 2, in the Arena yesterday afternoon. Jeb Bray and Dick Clasby scored a goal apiece and Johnny Marshall was superb in the nets for the losers with 28 saves. High-scorer John Thus sparked the Big Green...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Green Edges Yard Sextet, 3-2 | 2/20/1951 | See Source »

Jerry Kilty's Falstaff is superb. He dominates the stage with his boisterous amiability, and his cowardice is so patent that it almost seems a virtue. Perhaps it is the sympathy which Kilty arouses that makes Hal's rejection of him even harder to accept than usual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 2/16/1951 | See Source »

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