Word: choicest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World War has broken out again, at least among the undergraduate irregulars. Since where three sons of Harvard are gathered together three will be from two-and-a-half to four opinions about most subjects, the want of consensus about this proposed commemoration was unavoidable. A few of the choicest doctrinaires and come-outers said there should be no monument of any sort. They seemed to consider it as an encouragement of war. The majority could not breathe on these dizzy pacific altitudes. The only question was how the graduates who had played their part honorably in the war should...
...plant lice); some cultivate mushrooms. For non-carnivorous ants (the great majority) the greatest pleasure in life seems to be disgorging for others the food they have laboriously ac cumulated: "For her [the ant] regurgitation must be an act as delightful as is for us the degustation of the choicest meats and wines. It seems evident that in this act nature has incorporated pleasures analogous to those of the love of which she is deprived...
...canopied bed, an ermine rug for a blanket, toes always exposed; that she is never seen in public without her husband, has 36 fur coats, wears 14-karat-gold hairpins; that in Europe, where the Brulatours travel as Count & Countess, a Cairo sheik offered her husband four of his choicest wives in exchange...
...front of the Paramount and Lafayette theatres after the midnight show break, Small's and Connie's Inn (Harlem night clubs) after 2.30 a.m., and lower Fifth Ave., but at no such spots are public stands allowed. Enterprising independents instruct their drivers how to creep by the choicest spots in the city at the proper moment...
...Fraternity Club by name, waved a hand and snapped fingers for attention. According to reputable New York papers, his atmosphere is refined, suave, exclusive. His story was unique: dry agents disguised as college students had invaded his privacy, and while he was blissfully dining, had graciously, quietly removed his choicest liquors, his most courtly domestics...