Word: finest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Barring injuries, this Yardling team could develop into one of Guyda's finest...
...evening clothes puffed nervously at their cigarettes and filled the air with the Dutch language. They were the famed Amsterdam Concertgebouw (almost rhymes with dessert-'n'-how) Orchestra, launching their first U.S. tour. The thought of being in Carnegie Hall, where most of the world's finest orchestras have been heard, awed many of the players. They need not have worried. From the moment Conductor Eduard van Beinum quieted the rustling audience with a masterful glance, it was apparent this would be a concert to remember...
American need to get the "finest insights of our finest citizens," he said. "It is time now through education to endeavor to make this operative in lives of more and more of our people...
Whitman's appraisal of Eakins still stands. Next to Winslow Homer, Eakins (1844-1916) is the finest painter America has produced, and is still sneered at by some "professional elects." Eakins made art the servant of honesty; he chose showing over showiness, and thereby earned the lasting admiration of men who, like Whitman, place the true even higher than they do the beautiful...
William Lamb, Second Viscount Melbourne, was England's last big Whig. In 1939 Lord David Cecil wrote the first part of Lamb's tale, The Young Melbourne, a biography that rated as one of the finest of the decade. Now Author Cecil has finished the job by carrying his story up to Melbourne's death in 1848. The complete book is superb...