Word: ablest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Herculean task of portraying Maugham's derelict hero, in his progressive states of degeneracy falls to Hollywood's ablest young character actor, George Sanders. Delicately he begins as the solid English bank-clerk husband, who suddenly is transformed into a callous wife-beating artist. And then Sanders has the picture to himself, for he storms through the following scenes with the biting venom of a freed tiger, trampling helter-skelter over lesser beings, tyrannizing those who are attracted to him, kicking away the happiness of those who happen to be in his way. Finally the human juggernaut comes to rest...
Michigan voters were embarrassed by their riches. For Senator they had to choose between statesmanlike Democrat Prentiss Marsh Brown, generally rated one of the dozen ablest men on Capitol Hill, and famed racket-busting Republican Judge Homer Ferguson, a great & good public servant. For Governor, they had their choice of big, able, incumbent Democrat Murray Delos Van Wagoner, or big, able Republican Secretary of State Harry F. Kelly, one of the most popular politicos Michigan ever...
College officials were just as determined to keep control. The leaders of the American Council on Education had agreed on a plan: Let military authorities and the colleges jointly pick from the nation's ablest high-school graduates the members of an Enlisted Training Corps, limited by military quotas. Each enlistee, put into uniform and provided with base pay and a living allowance, would choose his own college, there get four semesters (about a year and a half) of basic officer training under R.O.T.C. or college teachers. After that, picked men would stay in college for advanced professional...
...rays of hope they have seen in India. He banned child marriage, sponsored educational reform. His palace had air conditioning, western plumbing, a telephone exchange. His hunting parties were lavish and invariably successful (two crack native shots always fired at a tiger when a guest did). Ablest ruler of his line, Junior nevertheless forgot that ever since the British East India Co. set up the princely states * there has been an unwritten law that princes must be seen and not heard...
Thirty-two-year-old Jack Belden is no Johnny-Come-Lately in China. He went there right after Colgate in 1932 -soon won the title "ablest correspondent covering the China War." He was taking a war correspondent's holiday in India when the strain of his adventures caught up with him, but he is far too tough to let even a half dozen diseases keep him down. Odds are he will be back at the front for you before the fall campaigns really get going...