Word: biggest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Viscount Inchcape of Strathnaver, biggest British-Oriental ship magnate, Chairman of the P. & O. and many another steamship line...
...women's tennis champion: Asked about my future, Mlle Lengien, 'Cleopatra of tennis', replied with what some people thought was amusing malice: 'She is a great player. Her operation [appendix] may or may not hurt her game, but it is not her biggest handicap. I was surprised to find she is letting herself get fat. Helen is getting too big about the hips.' My coach, W. C. ('Pop') Fuller swiftly retorted for me that my figure is mathematically perfect has not varied for months...
...Biggest Charles...
Sirs : I mention the fact in all humility because my given name is "Charles" and I am not a great man; but have you noticed how many very great Americans bear this name? The ten "biggest Charles" are worthy, I am sure, to stand beside the "ten biggest" Americans suggested by Mr. Pope (TIME...
Concerning Governor Smith of New York, Mr. White remarked: "There will have to be a change in the attitude toward big business before Al Smith can ever go to Washington. Personally, I con- sider that Al Smith represents the biggest, best, keenest and cleanest brain in American public life to-day-and I am a Republican...