Word: ablest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every good Republican and every anti-Tammany man for months & months. Their only chance. they all knew, lay in fusion. Republican Charles Seymour Whitman, New York State's onetime Governor, backed Major General John F. O'Ryan, a political non-entity but a Democrat. Tammany's ablest foe, Democrat Samuel Seabury who drove one Tammany mayor into voluntary exile, would have none of General O'Ryan. Last week after weeks of bickering the Fusionists finally agreed on a candidate for the nation's No. 3 elective office. No neophyte in Manhattan's politics, Fiorello...
When Mrs. Helen Wills Moody fell ill last week of what her doctors called "sub-acute unstable fifth lumbar vertebrae symptoms" and what Sports Colyumist Westbrook Pegler called "a crick in her back," it looked alarming for the U. S. Wightman Cup team. The ablest substitute in sight was slim, brown Sarah Palfrey, a girl who has played the most graceful tennis in the U. S. for the last four years but who has always, out of some childish nervousness, failed to do her best in important matches. Last fortnight Sarah Palfrey beat U. S. Champion Helen Jacobs...
Since Mr. Grinnell began trolling for broadbills where Long Island Sound joins the Atlantic, many another fisherman has gone there for the sport, preferring cool Montauk to torrid Cuba in the summer months. Many a Florida fishing captain works out of Montauk every year now. The ablest ones include Captains Bill Hatch, Bill Fagan, Howard Lance, Charlie Thompson, Tom Gifford...
...Eminence William Henry Cardinal O'Connell (whose awesome face appeared on TIME'S cover. Dec. 24, 1928) is perhaps the ablest U. S. Churchman of recent times. He is also crusty...
...Morgan & Co.'s profit, if not the larger part of its prestige, has been created by its securities business. To give up either part of its activities might easily deprive the other of much profit and prestige. The choice open to Morgan was enough to stump the ablest of bankers. The House of Morgan, ready with no extempore solution, appeared to face a turning point in its history...