Word: ablest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Actress Robson that George Bernard Shaw wrote Major Barbara, tale of a Salvation Army lass, his ablest document on social service...
...rustications," were his comparative sobriety and calmness at the centre of the whirlwinds he created, and his real interest even then in publishing. He haunted Boston newspaper plants. He made the Lampoon not only funny but profitable. And he decided Joseph Pulitzer's sensational new World was the ablest newspaper in the country...
...went to Hollywood in 1917, tried to get jobs as a serious actress. The only director who would give her one after her performance in Mary Pickford's Little Princess was Erich von Stroheim. Her treatment of a lugubrious part in Greed convinced him that she was the "ablest tragedienne in Hollywood." and she got the sad role of the mother in All Quiet on the Western Front. That film was previewed at a Hollywood theatre just after a Zasu Pitts comedy. When the audience was moved to reminiscent laughter by the sight of her face, the producers...
...surpassing his famed brother Lionel, defense player for the Montreal Maroons. Lean, morose goalie for the Maple Leafs is Lome Chabot, who has worn the same pair of lucky trousers in every hockey game for five years. The Maple Leafs' chief handicaps were injuries to three of their ablest men-Right-wing Bailey (dislocated shoulder), Defenseman Horner (broken hand), Center Primeau (blood poisoning in his left foot...
...been fat with charts and specifications for consolidating all U. S. railroads into seven regional systems. The man who kept the briefcase fat was John Walker Barriger III, chief railroad economist to the banking house of Calvin Bullock. Short, stocky John Barriger, 34, is rated one of the ablest railroad analysts in Wall Street. His chief source of pleasure is Pennsylvania R. R. over whose 12,000 mi. of way he scurries on endless inspection trips and whose bulky annual report he generally knows by heart before it is published. John Barriger figures that U. S. railroads could save...