Word: superiore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been to New York and St. Louis and talked with the leaders of the largest financial institutions in the country and know this plan and the institution that will stand behind it, if you wish, will carry out your idea of Life Subscriptions in a way that is far superior to anything yet devised for that purpose...
...feat which no snob of past history has ever accomplished, or tried to accomplish. But Professor Roger's snob of the future should be able to compass it, because he is to be a snob in an altogether new sense of the word. He is bound to remember the superior advantages of training given him in college, and he is to turn these to superior account in the development of "trained, organized, fastidious, discriminating leadership," yet he is to do this without arrogance, without self-conceit, in short, without snobbery. He is to court nobility, but never to forget...
...There is a strong feeling in America that it is not good to be a superior person. The idea seems to set a general level, a sort of happy-go-lucky mediocrity. You should raise your heads above...
...following quotation. "Me. I am hees muzzaire, hees seestaire, le consort of hees soul, le angel of his destinay! she declaimed passionately." Here in a few words is a compact, clear, concordance of the incest theme, inherited through Racine from the great Greeks. The French with their superior sensibility for inferring symbolically the heart of the situation, substitute here a small animal, a marmoset, for the loved one, thereby reducing the horror of the situation which could, otherwise, be unbearable...
...Angeles, Calif., twin sisters married twin brothers at a twin wedding two months ago. Twin Wives Louise and Lucy Young last week filed twin divorce suits in Los Angeles' Superior Court against Twin Husbands W. Byrl and Alvin Earl Young. Twin charges: the twin husbands' parents had told the twin wives they were only twin boarders...