Word: ablest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fashionable apartment hotel near city limits, went Francis A. Donaldson III, a muscular youth of 25 with considerable social èclat. He went there to try to settle a long quarrel with Horace Allen, a retired and impoverished woolen goods manufacturer, and his son Edward, 23, one of the ablest gentlemen riders in the East. Both the Donaldsons and the Aliens knew that young Donaldson and Rose Allen, 18, were lovers. Donaldson and her brother had been schoolmates at Haverford and bitterly disliked each other. As the altercation grew heated, Father Allen said afterwards. Francis knocked down Edward. Edward picked...
Principal and Mistress of the little Red school are Comrade Mike Gruzenberg and his wife Comrade Fanny. Famed under his alias "Borodin," Comrade Gruzenberg is considered throughout Russia the ablest Red instigator of foreign revolutions. In the East his silver tongue and Moscow's gold coin made possible the revolutionary conquest of all China by Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, now President. Today the Chinese Government, which broke with Russia to establish friendly relations with other Great Powers (TIME, April 25, 1927), is again angling for Moscow...
First Game. Connie Mack chose his ablest pitcher, Robert Moses ("Lefty") Grove. Gabby Street started Paul Derringer, the youngest pitcher on the St. Louis team. No pitcher in his first major league season had ever started in a World Series game before. It was a daring move that might have disconcerting effect and, as Grove was likely to win anyway, there was little to be lost in trying it. For two innings, it appeared that the strategy had been brilliant. In the warm, bright afternoon, the crowd that filled Sportsman's Park chortled and cheered; a hog-caller...
Since Carnera arrived in the U. S. almost two years ago (in an extra-large berth specially constructed for him on S.S. Olympic-TIME, Oct. 28, 1929) he has established himself as the most thoroughly publicized if not the ablest pugilist in history. By this time, everyone knows that he is 6 ft. 6½ in. tall; that his shoes are Size 20; that his walking stick on days when his managers expect him to be photographed, weighs 9 Ib.; that his neck is 20 in. around; that all other parts of his body, as is not usually the case...
...detective, who loves her also but does not permit affection to interfere with professional obligations. The picture, lacking the thickly gruesome atmosphere contrived by Author Sax Rohmer, is further handicapped by poor dialog and ineffective acting; the blood that is spilled in it seems scarcely as thick as water. Ablest members of the cast are the orientals-Anna May Wong and Sessue Hayakawa, who has not made a picture in Hollywood since 1921. After disbanding the company he had formed to make pictures featuring himself, Cinemactor Hayakawa acted in English and French cinemas, wrote a novel, played a brief dramatization...