Word: ablest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...International Red Cross has received $57,000 from the American Red Cross for Spanish succor, dispassionately divided between Rightists & Leftists. The American Red Cross spent $41,000 repatriating U. S. citizens caught in Spain by the war and unable to escape by their own efforts. Some of the very ablest mercy work of the Spanish civil war has been done by the American Friends Service Committee, the Quaker organization to which Mrs. Roosevelt gives her radio earnings. The Friends have spent $50,000 in Spain for non-combatants on both sides of the line, giving and doing wherever the need...
...World Below, James Roosevelt last week rounded out his fourth month of heavy duty. To observers reflecting on the position of the President's most intimate observer, it seemed that 30-year-old Son Jimmy had found himself after several false starts, had proved himself indispensable to the ablest politician in the U. S., and in so doing had, at the age of 30, already lived one of the most remarkable careers in U. S. public life...
Since Franklin Roosevelt is easily the world's most newsworthy personage and since the questioners are presumably the world's ablest newsgatherers, it is obviously impossible to believe that such a meeting could actually occur without producing anything more printable than a conference of kerosene tank politicians in a mud-flat filling station. Nine times out of ten, however, that is what happens. The correspondents can rarely think of anything worthwhile to ask the President; if they do the convention of mystery that surrounds all sorts of government impels the President to demonstrate his unique ability...
...most efficient readers, the favorite type of magazine is news comment; of the least efficient, pulps. Leading five magazines read by the 100 ablest readers in Professor Buswell's study were, in order of preference: Reader's Digest, TIME, Saturday Evening Post, American Magazine, Good Housekeeping. Most frequently read by the 100 poorest readers: True Story Magazine, Detective Story Magazine, Good Housekeeping, Liberty, Saturday Evening Post...
Last fortnight Miss Curran and the Pennsylvania Museum's Director Fiske Kimball arranged a big exhibition of WPA art, the first time Philadelphia's Relief artists have had a decent chance to show their work under public auspices. The Philadelphia Record's Dorothy Grafly, ablest art critic in the city, previewed the show and reported that "the general level is higher than that displayed in many a non-relief exhibition." What, therefore, was the surprise of Philadelphians converging on the museum that afternoon to find 60 pickets from the Artists' Union and from the Barnes Foundation...