Word: deepest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sacrifice was in one respect vain. Admiral Okada, after his spectacular "resurrection," found it impossible to remain Premier because of pressure from the middle-aged Japanese Radical-Militarists whose young Army assassins so narrowly failed to kill him. Admiral Okada last week had retired from office into deepest political oblivion-his career assassinated by weapons more subtle than the bullets which slew his brother...
This story of the Arizona desert about a man who has last found something worth dying for has all of the deep power of "Berkeley Square" without the aid of costumes. It is one of Anderson's greatest talents that he is able to present the deepest social and psychological problems in a modern setting. In this case Bette Davis is the daughter of a filling station owner and Leslie Howard is a refined hobo...
...Seated in the court room crowd was Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes. The red velvet curtains behind the austere columns parted, and the silk-robed Justices rustled to their seats. Breathless was the crowd as Chief Justice Hughes began to read. After the first sentence, the crowd sighed. Even the deepest-dyed Liberal hardly gave a hoot that day about Brown et al. v. State of Mississippi-three Negroes convicted of murder, whose statements, claimed to have been made when they were brutally whipped by deputy sheriffs, were admitted in evidence as confessions. The Chief Justice...
...Eaton granted to Mrs. Eaton the privilege oi visiting her progeny unless she attempted to "instill her atheistic and communistic beliefs" in their minds. Decided the Advisory Master: "She frankly states that she no longer considers herself a Christian She looks on all religion as useless and entertains the deepest contempt for that of her husband...
...cold that middle-aged "Beefeaters" from the Tower and Gentlemen of the King's Guard wore their heaviest cloaks, but the four officers rigid at the corners of the bier stood in their uniforms only, chilled to the marrow. The great throng's moment of deepest emotion came when it was known that Queen Mary and Edward VIII, unannounced, had quietly entered by a side door. Down the mile-long line passed the simple affecting words, "The King and Queen are with...