Word: finest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What you said of the Republican National Convention [TIME, July 21] is concise, accurate, and well put. But your gentle tribute to a fine old man, Herbert Hoover, was by far your finest hour...
...hours later, at noon, the convention met once more, nominated Sparkman, labored wearily through one more demonstration. Said Stevenson: "You have inspected some of the finest political livestock in the U.S. [But] we've reserved until this morning the prize human animal for your approbation." Stevenson was keeping up his record of an aphorism a day. To New York Publisher Dorothy Schiff, at the height of the convention tiredness, he had said: "intellectual rigor mortis...
Kabalevsky: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 41 (David Oistrakh; State Orchestra of the U.S.S.R., the composer conducting; Vanguard). The best chance yet to hear one of the world's finest fiddlers; his tone has the warmth (but not the sentimentality) of Elman, his technique shades Heifetz. The music bubbles with effortless melody and humor. Recording : clear and immediate...
...crowd roared. Then Ike continued: "Much more than this, it is our aim to give to our country a program of progressive policies drawn from our finest Republican traditions; to unite us wherever we have been divided; to strengthen freedom wherever among any group it has been weakened; to build a sure foundation for sound prosperity for all here at home, and for a just and sure peace throughout our world . . . The road that leads to Nov. 4 is a fighting road. In that fight I will keep nothing in reserve...
Fine did well at Dickinson Law School. One day, crotchety old Dean William F. Trickett summoned him. "Young man," cried Dean Trickett, "you could become one of the finest lawyers in this state. But you won't. You won't. You're going to be a politician...