Word: ablest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ablest professional players are less likely to be All-Americans than crack players from obscure teams, like Stapleton's Quarterback Bob Campiglio, from West Liberty Teachers, and the Giants' end, Ray Flaherty, from Gonzaga. Some professionals are discovered by scouts. Others, like the Giants' Fullback Mulleneaux, who arrived from Arizona as a hobo, ask for employment. Professional players who have been famed in college get salaries much higher than the average of $125 per game, during their first season. Minnesota's Bronko Nagurski, now fullback for the Chicago Bears, gets about $300. Cagle gets...
There is nothing tramplike about the News's new editor who was once reputed "the ablest journalist between Chicago and Manhattan." He is gentle, somewhat naïve, with a professorial mannerism of peering over the tops of spectacles which are always slipping down his nose. Born 58 years ago in Indiana, son of a college president, Earle Martin began early to prepare himself for the newspaper business. While yet in school he wrote Author David Graham Phillips whom his mother used to tutor in Greek, asking what he should do about it. Author Phillips prescribed a college education...
Helen Hayes played children's parts for Vitagraph in 1910 but The Sin of Madelon Claudet, which came after she had been spoken of frequently as the ablest dramatic actress on the U. S. stage, was her first noteworthy venture in the cinema. She had the role of a French peasant girl who takes up with a thief and turns prostitute to support her son. Like Helen Hayes, Lynn Fontanne made her debut in cinema last year and her performance in The Guardsman was one of three nominated for the Academy's award. The third was aged Marie Dressier...
...lives very quietly. In New York, whither Mme Boutet de Monvel seldom comes, he has a cream-&-black duplex studio and entertains lavishly at the more expensive restaurants. His contemporaries and critics are as respectful of his talent as they may be envious of his life. One of the ablest of society portraitists, his style is his own, exactly suited for what he tries to do: make a record of decorative scenes, 20th Century chic...
...abilities are to well and too widely known to make it needful for anyone to vouch for them. His abilities and his acknowledged placed as one of the leaders in thought among lawyers and law teachers speak for themselves." At the same time, he was termed as one of ablest and most profound members of the legal profession in the country by Oliver Wendell Holmes '61, retired associate justice of the United States Supreme Court...