Word: superman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...games last season: the first no-hit, no-run game pitched in the major leagues in nearly two years, beating the St. Louis Browns 9-0. Besides striking out eight men, allowing only three walks (three others got on base on errors by miserable Bill Hunnefield, short stop), Superman Ferrell drove a terrific home run into the center field bleachers in the fourth with a man on base, and brought in two more runs in the eighth with a double off the right field wall...
...subject written by one who knows it well. Since philosophy, as Professor Perry points out, "is a deliberate affront upon common sense", it needs some explaining if the common man is to partake of its fruits. Anyone with a retentive memory can speak gliby about Nietzsche's superman, but to receive the benefits of philosophic thought one must first be given some concept of the philosopher's approach to life. That is just what Professor Perry does...
Rarely if ever had a President taken the oath of office with public expectation of great achievements whipped to a higher pitch. President Hoover had been extolled as the Superman whose engineering genius would reform and elevate the Art of Government. Advertised for Washington was a New Era. With the Press trumpeting welcomes and high hope, with a Cabinet substantial though not exceptional, President Hoover took his new job with a rush of enthusiasm. He stifled a Mexican revolution with an arms embargo. He moved to conserve oil on the public domain. He banished the hypocritical "Official Spokesman" from...
Advice is given by the Virgin Mary, Dante and the Unknown Soldier. Finally the assemblage decides that a superman must do battle with the devil, now personified as Bolshevism. God the Father summons the Archangel Gabriel, commands him to descend to Earth and find...
...After the 1928 election President Coolidge was asked what he proposed to do about Muscle Shoals. His sarcastic reply: "Nothing, I'll leave that to the superman...