Word: ablest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poll of U. S. exhibitors. As rival to President Roosevelt and King Edward VIII for most photographed celebrity, she appears in an average of 20 still portraits daily for magazines, newspapers and advertisements. In addition to being, accurately speaking, the most popular cinemactress, Shirley Temple is the ablest song-plugger in Hollywood. Sheet music sales on her songs, like Polly Wolly Doodle and On the Good Ship Lollipop, are over 400,000 copies each. These are larger than the sales of songs introduced in the same period by Bing Crosby, Jeanette MacDonald...
Again French soothsayers had an explanation for this. France's ablest Fascists are the Croix de Feu under the leadership of handsome but ineffective Colonel Frangois Casimir de la Rocque. Colonel de la Rocque has neither the plan nor the push to make a real dictator. Neither perhaps has André Tardieu. but he at least is a politician shrewd enough, if not brave enough, to know what to do with the Croix de Feu. if he ever gets his hands on it. A more hard-headed explanation: André Tardieu could not be elected...
...diver, who, her own turn finished, wrapped herself in a brown blanket, sat in a camp chair ostentatiously looking in the opposite direction while her rivals sprang off the low board. Obviously the most personable contestant in the event, she was also, in the opinion of five judges, the ablest by a shade. Claudia Eckert, a mop-haired, 18-year-old Northwestern amphibian who, like famed Katherine ("Minnow") Rawls, is indiscriminately adept at all forms of aquatic competition. Last year she won the A. A. U. high diving championship. Last week she lost this title to 13-year-old Marjorie...
College basketball teams in the U. S. get the most publicity but they are not necessarily the ablest. Last week, in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, the five college teams that qualified for the tournament to decide U. S. basketball entrants in next summer's Olympic Games fared poorly. Basketball representatives of two organizations as thoroughly nonacademic as Universal Pictures Corp. of Hollywood, and Globe Oil & Refining Co. of McPherson, Kans., met in the final...
...Jones would tip him 25?. His son, Benjamin Franklin Jones Jr., was a crack steelman and J. & L.'s lead until his death in 1928. In his later years active command was in the hands of his first cousin, William Larimer Jones, regarded in his day as the ablest operating man in the industry. Benjamin Franklin Jones III and William Larimer Jones Jr., their respective sons, are today young vice presidents, directors and executive committee members...