Word: choicest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After some of the filthier lyrics are strained out, the air waves will be carrying "When Love Beckoned," "But in the Morning, No," "Do I Love You?", and "It Was Written in the Stars." But right now, they are only parts of a show which is one of the choicest bits of the fall theatre season...
...Nearest competitor: The New Poetry, edited by the late Harriet Monroe and Alice Corbin Henderson (Macmillan), 23,704 copies printed. Queerest: The Oxford Book of Modern Verse, edited by the late William Butler Yeats (Oxford). Choicest: The Faber Book of Modern Verse, edited by Michael Roberts (Faber & Faber...
...tiger-hunting, spade-bearded Republican Representative George Holden Tinkham rose to speak in the House for the first time in half a dozen years he was saddened by a new kind of heckling. Again & again as he warmed to his theme (neutrality), and strode dramatically across the rostrum, his choicest passages were drowned by shouts of "Mike! Mike!" Finally he grabbed the microphone with both hands as if it were a python that he was about to strangle and bellowed the rest of his message at it. Afterward he groused: "These damned microphones! They talk back to you-just like...
...visitors who went to see the choicest art of the hemisphere, the exhibition provided one big disappointment and one pleasant surprise. The disappointment was the Brazilian section, which seemed to have been picked by a myopic bartender and consisted almost exclusively of washed-out imitation of European academicism. That a native art of considerable vigor is budding in Brazil, World's Fair visitors have already learned from murals in the Brazilian pavilion by Rio de Janeiro's popular, roly-poly Candido Portinari. There was nothing by him in the show...
...Choicest anti-Government epithets came from Colonel Josiah C. Wedgwood of Newcastle-under-Lyme, the great potter's great-great-great-grandson. Colonel Wedgwood, "last of the great individualists," is a igth-Century fighting liberal, so independent that he would not even join the Independent Labor Party. Highlights of his long Parliamentary career include opposition to entrance into the World War and the rallying of a Parliamentary faction to support King Edward VIII in the Wallis Warfield Simpson crisis (". . . an insult to the United States"). Colonel Wedgwood's big heart, like that of his ancestor who backed...