Word: chiefest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Likewise the acting varies, but Miss Tempest raises each of her scenes to sparkling high-comedy, strengthening every moment her position as one of our chiefest comediennes. "A Lady's Name" is hardly valuable for its story. In an effort to obtain "copy" for her novels although possessing a surly finance, advertises for a husband. Her most promising material appears in a sleek, oily gentleman's gentleman. So pleased is she with his novelizing possibilities that she invites herself to tea at his place of service. A bored gentleman, who comes in fun and stays at the lady's feet...
...rubbish. Promoting this spot, therefore, to the place of honor in his diggings he clears a still more distant and unregarded place for his dump--and there finds more wonderful things still. In archaeology, chance is often the great baffler of the explorer, but sometimes it is his chiefest aid. In this case it certainly was a great assistance, and Dr. Reisner's ten Ethiopian kings, picked up in fragments but virtually intact when put together, will always be the monarchs of the dump heap in archaeological history...
...from far-away around the earth, and, seeking for a place to put his own rubbish, inpinges upon the rubbish of the up-to-date builder of twenty-six centuries gone; he finds the pieces of Tirhaka and Tanut-Amon, reconstitutes them with care, and promotes them to the chiefest honor among the denizens of Napata. Could there be a more romantic rebirth than that...