Word: supermanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Superman athletic teams are nothing new at Great Lakes. During World War I the Station boasted not only a crack basketball team (17 victories in 21 starts), but the No. 1 football team in the U.S. Its roster included four players who have since become famed football coaches: George Halas (Chicago Bears), Jimmy Conzelman (Chicago Cardinals), Charlie Bachman (Michigan State) and Paddy Driscoll (backfield coach for Halas' Bears). Although they played first-rate teams, including one of Knute Rockne's strongest Notre Dame elevens, Great Lakes' fabulous gobs sailed undefeated through the 1918 season, wound...
...quite evident that you have the wrong purpose in going to Widener. You seem to be the exceptional Harvard man, the long sought after demi-concentrator, the superman of the library who can keep one eye on the book and the other on the passing scenery. For your type of intellect it might be well to annex Widener to the Old Howard and have built-in chorus girls...
...sheltered youngsters is Decca's current children's list: Tarzan of the Apes and Superman's Christmas Adventure. Both Decca and Victor offer recordings of Dickens' Christmas Carol; in Decca's, the Scrooge is Ronald Colman. Columbia puts out Prokofieff's musical fairy tale, Peter and the Wolf. The music is well handled by Leopold Stokowski and his All American Youth Orchestra, but Basil Rathbone's narration lacks the imposing resonance of Richard Hale in the earlier Victor...
Nobody could deny that the Little Flower was one of the world's half-dozen busiest men, and far & away the world's busiest busybody. Managing the earth's most citified city would be a full-time job for Superman. LaGuardia tosses it off in a bare twelve hours a day. In his ample spare time he runs (without salary) the Office of Civilian Defense in Washington, participates in the Canadian-American Joint Defense Board, makes an average of 700 speeches a year, conducts an occasional orchestra, sits in on occasional Cabinet meetings, dashes...
What Lamar and Frank Swirles said about Navy made Hitler, Superman, and Punjab sound like timid Plebes. Henry began to apologize after the second man's description for using the same words over again, but apparently there are only a limited number of descriptive terms like "terrific" while the Navy has an unlimited number of men worthy of praise...