Word: superiors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fairbanks was an ordinary young ham, except for his superior muscles, until one day on the stage in a serious moment he recalled a gag another actor had told him offstage a few minutes before. Against his will, irresistibly, he grinned. The effect was electric. Irresistibly Doug Fairbanks grinned and leaped his way to stage success as a bounding Lothario, a leaping Lochinvar who made love on the bounce. Hollywood gave him higher walls to scale, longer ropes to swing on, scores more swordsmen to engage in single-handed combat. His first picture, The Lamb, jumped his first ten-week...
Illman prevailed in his match by dint of his superior knowledge and opportunist tactics, and just edged the more muscular Loring after coming from behind, with all odds again him, at the end of four minutes of wrestling...
...what changes the book would undergo if Mr. Sheean were to rewrite it now that he has forsworn Soviet Russia once and for all. Nevertheless, a fine book by one of the most intelligent reporters of our day. . . . Nora waln's "Reaching for the Stars" is a superior account of one woman's reactions to the Nazi regime. Not passionate in its hatred, but one the less deeply moving. . . David Lloyd George's "Memoirs of the Peace Conference' reconstruct, from an unmistakable viewpoint, the peace conference which made no peace at all. . . Pierre van Paassen's "Days of our Years...
...Captain Charley Lutz, the hoopsters put up a good fight, but superior shooting and a decided advantage in getting the ball off the backboard gave the Bruins a well-earned victory...
...absolute certainty to get one of the jobs, and Sophomore Jim Redmon is a good bet for the other one, whichever it is. Another second-year man, Harry Blaine, constitutes their major opposition. Schoenberg and Redmon may either take turns at the reducing task or perhaps a definitely superior combination of the two may be established...