Word: superhumans
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...would have had forced out of their reluctant hands one concession after another?for God's sake let them choose another man to lead them! But, if they are in a minority, let them refrain from throwing difficulties in the way of those who have undertaken an almost superhuman task on the successful accomplishment of which depends the prosperity of the British Empire...
...which most of the action takes place. Dracula is an exciting melodrama, not as good as it ought to be but a cut above the ordinary trapdoor-and-winding-sheet type of mystery film. Silliest sound: Helen Chandler's feeble soprano chirrup uttered repeatedly as an indication of superhuman fear...
...users and sublime Tristans outshone even the Parsifals of so great an oldtime Wagnerian as Karl Muck whose conducting has been one of the few bright spots of recent festivals. The German orchestra with which Toscanini worked, whose language he did not know, grumbled at first over the almost superhuman demands he made upon them. Later they cheered him. Conductor Muck was mentioned for the vacant post, but most considered Widow Wagner's choice as inevitable. Muck is 71, Toscanini 63, but the difference in musical fire, vision, power and energy of the two maestros is far greater than...
...recommended, such as: Edgar Allan Poe's The Gold Bug and Murders in the Rue Morgue, William Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series. But Detective Dengler reminds his pupils: "The officer [in these stories] always wins against crooks by some superhuman effort." He warns against "disappointment...
Golden silence is a coin few men can keep, more especially if they have been spendthrift talkers, boasters, threateners -as Signer Benito Mussolini used to be. Three years ago Il Duce resolved to become reticent, publicly announced his resolution (TIME, June 6, 1927), and has kept it with superhuman willpower. No longer does the Peace of Europe tremble every fortnight at his roar. Last week, however, the Dictator permitted himself a sort of spree, dashed at breakneck speed around Tuscany in his bellowing Alpha Romeo, fought a fencing match at Lucca, kissed on both cheeks his adversary General Romeo Lunghera...