Word: finest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...member of the finest Jewish country club in Minneapolis. I myself do not gamble, but I am not naive enough to feel that I can impose my philosophy on others. Semioccasionally, there is a flurry of publicity concerning gambling." Publisher Hirschfield is well aware that there are both bettors and bookmakers. "This," says he. "is no fault of mine. If I were to sell you a car, do you think I'd ask if you planned to use it to rob a bank...
Soon the girl, who was given the name of Yang Kwei Fei, was dressed in robes of finest silk, and sent to wait upon the emperor where he took his tea among the flowering plums. He took up his lute and made a hymn to the budding grove. The maiden, listening, was pierced to the heart by his music. She thought, "He must be seeking sincerity." That night she was sent to wait upon the emperor in his bedchamber. When he came to bed and saw her fresh and tender as a flowering branch, he staggered back. "Who sent...
...Buddhism, Mohammedanism, Shintoism] often associated with nationalistic fervor, and threatening to put obstacles in the way of the church's work . . . There is the greatest need for the rethinking of missionary strategy, and for devising new methods of cooperation." But while new methods of evangelism are desirable, "the finest, best-tempered and most certain instrument of evangelism is the whole company of the worshiping church...
Very possibly Shaw's finest play, Saint Joan is yet one of his most uneven. The first third is little more than competent chronicle play; it is not till the second third that it becomes vibrantly Shavian; and not till the final third that it grows demonstrably great. At the Phoenix a generally torpid production stressed the play's long, slow climb before achieving-in the Trial Scene and the Epilogue-one of the great peaks of 20th century stage writing...
Prizewinner. For years Jack Daniel sold his whisky only in Tennessee and neighboring states. But in 1904, a case found its way to the St. Louis Exposition, and there among the finest names in whisky, unheralded Jack Daniel's won first prize. After that, Daniel's went right on winning awards, but the distillery did not try to capitalize on its growing fame. With nephew Lem Motlow running the business (uncle Jack had crippled himself in 1905 angrily trying to kick open his balky office safe), it still held to the old methods, turned out fewer than...