Word: finests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beyond the low fence. He visited the old Quaker cemetery, where some dozen Hoovers are buried under the red cedars, and for a long moment stood with his head bowed before the grave of his father and mother. On a platform looking out over sun-splashed fields of the finest corn in lowans' memory, Hoover spoke. He recalled leaving West Branch at the age of ten to live on his uncle's farm (his father died when he was six, his mother when he was nine), the long round of farm chores, the unending making of provisions...
Honor. "This is my finest impression of America. Why, in schools they even have examinations with professors out of the room . . . Incredible...
...experts regard Silver Creek as the finest dry-fly stream in the U.S." [TIME, July 12]. What experts? And why better than the Beaverkill or Willowemoc in the Catskills; the West Branch Ausable...
...rehearsal time. They played whenever & wherever they could, giving concerts in barns, corn exchanges and the homes of friends. They finally got to play the Mendelssohn Octet with the Pro Arte String Quartet ("they were the gods"). Says Griller: "We had terrific competition-the Budapest, the Busch, all the finest. But we worked our way, rather like worms." For a while they did not even have a name. "I had gone over to Ireland to visit my girl. When I got back, the other three told me they'd had to have some announcements made. 'We didn...
Bullivant and the Lambs (which was entitled Manservant and Maidservant in England) is perhaps Author Compton-Burnett's finest novel. Its principal character, Family-Head Horace Lamb, is a typical Compton-Burnett tyrant-one who believes that he has sacrificed his whole life to his family and never misses a chance to remind them of the fact. He has married his wife, Charlotte, for her money, "hoping to serve his impoverished estate, and she had married him for love, hoping to fulfil herself. The love had gone and the money remained, so that the advantage lay with Horace...