Word: brainiest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grace, the wealthy, 64-year-old Duchess of Atholl stood for re-election on a straight platform of 100% opposition to Prime Minister Chamberlain's policy of dealing with dictators. Long a sharp-tongued critic of Mr. Chamberlain's foreign policy, the Duchess, one of the brainiest women in British politics, has been tagged with such sobriquets as "Red Kitty" or the "Red Duchess" because of her support of Loyalist Spain and other causes unloved by Mr. Chamberlain's Conservative Party...
Only sure berths secured now are in the unlimited and 175-1b. classes. Probably the brainiest wrestler on the squad, heavyweight Bill Glendinning thrilled a crowd of 1000 last March, when he toppled football Captain Charlie Toll of Princeton who had a 45 pound advantage. Short, stocky he has a good chance to gain Intercollegiate laurels in his last season here, if he can throw Pickett of the Elis who in March handed him his only defeat...
...robbery. Son Lloyd was sent to Leavenworth. Son Arthur received a life sentence to Oklahoma State Penitentiary for murder, but his mother got him paroled. Then she and he and Son Fred joined Alvin Karpis in heading what the Department of Justice's J. Edgar Hoover called the brainiest, most dangerous gang in the U. S. Their brains, said the chief of the Federal Division of Investigation, were in the head of plump, thin-lipped, shrewish "Ma" Barker. Outstanding among their feats of killing, bank robbery and kidnapping was the abduction of Edward G. Bremer, St. Paul banker...
...onetime boy-prodigy, Adolf Augustus Berle Jr., has been the cockiest and brainiest of the Roosevelt brain trust. He accepted, last week, the office of City Chamberlain on condition that the office eventually be abolished and that its salary meanwhile be curtailed. Mr. Berle has a teaching job at Columbia, a private law practice, is in demand as an author of newspaper articles and must be available for duty at the White House as well as at City Hall...
Before marching forth President Chiang issued, through his publicity bureau, a thoroughgoing rebuke to his brainiest rebel foe, Foreign Minister Eugene Chen of the new, revolutionary "Chinese Government" at Canton (TIME, June 8). Suitable for framing, this quaint manifesto read as follows...