Word: ablest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gallery's enterprising director, bald, sad-eyed Curt Valentin, had chosen 26 assorted bronzes, terra cottas, plaster, wood and granite pieces by 16 of the ablest U. S. sculptors. All of them were U. S. citizens, but less than half of them were U. S.-born & bred. Deftest sculptures exhibited were by Ukrainian-born Abstractionist Alexander Archipenko, German-born Heinz Warneke, Spanish-born José de Creeft, who teaches at Manhattan's New School for Social Research...
...London's vital outpost, the Ambassadorship to the Court of St. James's, he prepared to send no blundering politico but one of the ablest career diplomats in the Foreign Service, shrewd, handsome Norman Armour, now Ambassador to Argentina. Mr. Armour's record was a quick index to his ability: posts at Paris (twice). Petrograd, Brussels, The Hague, Montevideo, Rome. Tokyo, Port-au-Prince, Ottawa, Santiago. Buenos Aires, Washington...
...address to an enthusiastic audience, returned to Manhattan to say his say to the ex-Willkie Club members: "I have a tremendous interest in principles and in that endeavor I hope to carry on. ... One of the difficulties in American public life has been its failure to call its ablest and best men in public service. ... I hope that as a result of the Willkie Club movement you will develop men and women to serve. ... I hope that in five or ten years or even in two years I will see many of you running for Congress, the Senate, Governorships...
Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington and Benjamin David ("Benny"') Goodman are the ablest U. S. jazz band leaders now shaking a stick. Both are hard-working and musicianly; both are money-making veterans. Last week the Duke and Benny both made off-beat appearances...
...last night's Militant Aid to Britain meeting Professor Barton Leach, in delivering by far the ablest speech of the evening, called for "serious, thoughtful discussion" of America's foreign policy. Incongruously, he was followed on the platform by Professor William Y. Elliott, who pulled every oratorical trick out of his capacious bag in an impassioned emotional appeal to the he-man, red-blooded spirit of his audience...