Word: ablest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ablest, most vigorous painting in the show was in the North Central States section. Best known was Sleeping by Michigan's John Carroll. The model for this picture was Georgia Finckel, 27, whom Artist Carroll married last week in Columbus, Ohio. He called his frail, slant-eyed second wife the "inspiration" as well as the model for the murals he had just finished at Detroit's Institute of Arts...
...Middle Atlantic States' entries were hardest hit by the artists' boycott. Non-boycotters in New York were Gifford Beal, Charles Burchfield, Guy Péne DuBois with his well known Mr. & Mrs. Middle Class, Ernest Lawson, Jonas Lie, Luigi Lucioni, Henry Varnum Poor, John Sloan. Ablest was Eugene Speicher's Nude Back...
...Ababa. Up to his tent rode a bedraggled, bearded native on muleback carrying a twisted twig and a scrap of white cloth. Stiffly dismounting, the blackamoor bowed low to the ground in token of submission. It was Ras Seyoum, onetime ruler of Tigre Province, the "Black Fox of Ethiopia." ablest of the north Ethiopian chieftains. For six months he had held Italy's armies at bay. Alone he had arrived to surrender...
...Nahas Pasha is today the Wafd. He inherited it in 1927 from the late great Zaghlul Pasha who founded the party and picked El Nahas Pasha for his lieutenant. In Egypt, as elsewhere, lawyers supply most of the popular leaders and El Nahas Pasha is one of the ablest, most belligerent of Egypt's lawyers. A forceful speaker, he fired the fuse to last year's anti-British rioting, said: "We want to be Britain's ally, not her vassal...
...named as recipient of the Harmon Trophy that super-careful, monosyllabic antithesis of a grandstand flyer. Captain Edwin C. Musick, 42, No. 1 pilot of Pan American Airways. The award includes the title of ''World's Outstanding Aviator" for 1935. Famed among flyers as perhaps the ablest flying-boat pilot on earth, but practically unknown to the U. S. public until Pan American began its methodical march across the Pacific (TIME, Dec. 2), Captain Musick has never been known to stunt a commercial plane, has had no accidents in more than two decades of flying...