Word: ablest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rejected it because Hock Sim Ong had beaten them with discouraging ease. In the final, with a socialite crowd of 5.000 seated around the court, Hock Sim Ong's opponent was tall, 24-year-old Walter Kramer of the Detroit Badminton Club, rated by professionals as the ablest U. S. amateur for the last two years. The first game went to Kramer, 15-10. In the second Sim Ong got a lead of 4-1, then apparently forgot all he knew about the game while his opponent ran out 14 points in a row for match & title. Prettiest girl...
Thus many of the big new Russian tanks which Soviet newsreels show rushing in terrifying fashion across the Red Square are now giving mighty account of themselves in Spain, and so is the International Column directed by Stalin's ablest practical maker of war outside Russia, famed General Emilio Kleber...
...Oldest, ablest, most interesting of these abstractionists is Artist Albert Eugene Gallatin, Eugene to his friends, though art critics know him better as a patron than a producer of art. Always free from the necessity of earning a living. Eugene Gallatin was definitely one of the lads in the days of pearl-button reefers and horse-headed canes. A member of the swank Union Club for many years, he was founder, remains president of the moribund Motor-Car Touring Society, whose object was to bring a tone of dashing sportsmanship to the horseless carriage...
...academic standing." Convicted with Yalemen Mason & Garland was as pretty a crew of stock-jobbers and boiler-shop operators as ever hooked a widow, including Dave ("The Duke") Durbin, whose sales aids were white spats, a Japanese chauffeur and a Cadillac V16. One of the ablest was a handsome fellow named Walter M. Barr whose specialty was rich old ladies...
...liberal following, is for almost the first time confronted by a formidably articulate opposition. Among U. S. journalists, no more facile penman exists than The New Yorker's famed E. (for Elwyn) B. (for Brooks) White. Grave, smallish Writer White, whose devotees consider him the nation's ablest humorist, is generally content to muse on minor human foibles. In semi-serious vein he perennially campaigns against arsenic apple spray. He is a friend-but not, as reported by bumbling Alexander Woollcott, the founder-of the Enemies of Modern Aviation, Inc. Last week, however, connoisseurs recognized an unusually earnest...