Word: choicest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Showering her choicest honors on a beaming, bewildered Chinese last week. Dai Nippon or Great Japan asked in effect, "What have you got to have that I haven't got to give...
...Josiah Quincy paid his sixpence in 1821 to shoot at a turkey, the same stately Josiah Quincy who made the parting senior, having the customary cake and wine at Wadsworth House with his president, feel as though he had drunk "with Prince Metternich at Johannesberg a bottle of his choicest vintage." There on the Delta the Freshmen and Sophomores held their annual football game, with the upper classes ranged on the stone posts and square-sharp rails of the fence, lightly chatting with demure sisters and belles from Boston as they watched the combatants work out a mutual destiny...
...scuffle with the defenders of that most unaccountable of God's creatures, the Boston debutante. And of course his eloquence has been vain in the face of adamantine prejudice. The Vagabond, however, would not have his wisdom lost to humanity and he here sets down for the Ages the choicest of his thoughts...
...brown. In the autumn they are big & bright enough to be sold. They are bailed out of the ponds, sorted in troughs, placed in cans for shipment. During the trip the water in their cans is changed every eight hours. Ozark goldfish have stocked President Hoover's Rapidan camp (choicest varieties were kept in the White House), the Woolaroc ranch of Oilman Frank Phillips, the Bureau of Fisheries' aquarium exhibition. Fish Master Nakashima does not raise his goldfish for scientific experiments, but some of them may find their way into laboratories...
Eheu, these are sorry times indeed when the nitred vaults for lack of love must be thrown open and the choicest vintage blazoned on bill boards. But perhaps before the exquisite measures of learned Flaccus die completely from the ears of men, there will be a new Renaissance which will save the attic treasures without resort to abasing vulgarity...