Word: finest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into Lima last week flew special Argentine Ambassador Diego Luis Molinari, with seven gaudily uniformed granaderos de San Martin and some of South America's finest rhetoric. He was met by Argentine commercial technicians. Molinari and his grenadiers had already splashed grandiloquently through the halls and plazas of most of Latin America. Peruvians were impressed. Said Apra Chief Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre: "We need their wheat and meat." Perón has already promised Chile $175,000,000 to tie her to Argentina in bonds of trade. Bolivia's new Government got another...
...final fanfare of the "finest" will be featured between halves of the Harvard-Yale basketball game to-morrow night when the renowned University band takes the floor...
Shouted President Fitzgerald: "I have seen one of the finest examples of Red-baiting here this morning!" But committee members were also wise to that one. As well as most of labor, they knew that U.E.W. had long been the C.I.O.'s biggest Communist-dominated union...
...real wit and imagination, Volpone and Mosca are exhilarating villains; their dupes are ludicrous victims. And Ben Jonson, the solidest playwright of his age, was possibly its finest rhetorician-a man who could give words color and weight, impact and grandeur...
...racehorse owner, he was not through with horses. On a 504-acre ranch at the edge of the Mojave Desert, he still has a splendiferous breeding farm, with 15 different kinds of grass, a resident veterinarian, and everything but gold-handled pitchforks. There he keeps 74 of the finest brood mares in the land, whose offspring he will raise and sell each season as yearlings. Breeding, says L.B. now, is the side of the horse industry that is really sporting...