Word: fieriest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Free on bail in Mexico City last week was the fieriest Mexican muralist of them all, David Alfaro Siqueiros. In 1922, when he was a baby-faced revolutionist, Siqueiros organized and ran the famed Syndicate of masons and painters (Charlot, Orozco, Merida, Montenegro, de la Cueva, Rivera) who revived true fresco in America. Since the dispersal of that illustrious company, Sparkplug Siqueiros has led strikes in Mexico, preached socialist esthetics in Manhattan, fought in Spain as a colonel in the Loyalist Army. When he returned from the war last month he vowed to settle down and paint. Fortnight ago President...
...extending from the railway station to the Dunapalota Hotel. Through this the Cianos drove beneath banners reading "LONG LIVE MUSSOLINI! LONG LIVE HUNGARY'S MIGHTY FRIEND!" At the Parliament Building only Hungarian Socialist Deputies, who can never forget that Fascism's founder was once Italy's fieriest Socialist, absented themselves but other Deputies and Cabinet Ministers cheered like whooping schoolboys. When Count Ciano appeared in the Diplomatic Box, he was addressed from the rostrum by Speaker Dr. Alexander Sztranyavszky, asked to convey the best wishes of the Hungarian Parliament "to Italy's Heaven-sent Leader...
When the Times eagle was cast in 1891, the paper was just ten years old and Los Angeles was a town of 50,395 inhabitants. By all odds the fieriest spirit among them was Harrison Gray ("Old Walrus") Otis, late lieutenant colonel of the Union Army. In his own words, he nourished "a tremendous and abiding faith in the future of Los Angeles"-and its climate. This bewhiskered turkey-cock boomed the town into a city, made money as it grew, built himself a fine home called "The Bivouac" and mounted his bellicose eagle on a building at First...
There was, as usual, a fine ring of righteousness in the General's words but little enlightenment for the country at large as to one of the fiercest, fieriest backstage fights of the New Deal. All Washington knew that a mighty tussle was in progress over the future of NRA. Newshawks got circumstantial glimpses of the contest?a second-hand piece of gossip here, an angry word by way of confirmation there...
...purpose of boycotting the former, is "impossible of achievement" because in such large enterprises Jewish and non-Jewish interests are so often intermixed. As though he feared Storm Troopers would not believe he spoke for the Party, Dr. Schmitt insisted that his announcement had been approved by that fieriest of Jew-baiters, hot-eyed, club-footed Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels...