Word: ever
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When has a chef or a cook ever ap peared on a British Honours list? Yet the man who cooks your food ... is as important as ... a dozen great painters, literateurs, or musicians...
...relegate our activities to a subsidiary position to men's work in such a way as to limit us." While Methodist committees last week explored ways & means of settling this and other questions, 1,300 Methodists gathered in Nashville, Tenn. for the largest banquet the city had ever seen. It was the first time the three branches of Methodism had met officially since the Methodist Protestants split off in 1828 (over lay representation) and the Southern Methodists broke away in 1845 (over slavery). Two Negro Methodist bishops sat among the banquet guests of honor. No Southerner complained...
...Wellington used to say that Napoleon lost his Waterloo on the playing fields of Eton, but Napoleon's victors have been losing theirs ever since, on their own dining-room tables...
...league hockey club). Last week when the Red Wings lost their seventh game out of nine this season, it was too much for Owner Norris. Dipping into his gold-lined jeans, he persuaded the league-leading Boston Bruins to sell Goaltender Cecil ("Tiny") Thompson for $15,000 (highest price ever paid for a goalie). No less shocked than hockey fans was Tiny Thompson (so named because he is so big), who had been with the Bruins ten years, had helped them climb to top ranking in their division of the league five times, had won the Georges Vezina Trophy...
...nation's biggest branch banker, he is notably scornful of Wall Street, has enjoyed nothing more than annoying its orthodox banking fraternity by backing New Deal financial policies. Wall Street was therefore enormously delighted last week because the New Deal had bit the only big banking hand that ever...