Word: finests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such old favorites as "If You Knew Brunnhilde Like I Know Brunnhilde" ("wow--wow--wow what a frau") and Becthoven's 10th Symphony which smacked suspiciously of "Roll Out the Barrel." Fifteen minutes of slapstick were never more enjoyable as this bizarre ensemble umpahed its way through the finest of old Vienna schmaltz...
Even more convincing than these gladsome harbingers, however, is the fact that the leprechauns are at work again. Latest depredations of The Little 5People center about the gates leading into the Yard. True to all that is finest in Harvard's long tradition of hospitality, these gates stood wide open all winter. But for the past few weeks, late-comers moving to and from the Yard have found their passage mysteriously but effectively blocked by the sturdy chains and locks which seal the portals firmly shut...
...Spokane, Drama Critic John Mason Brown told an audience of educators what years of low teacher pay has done to U.S. schools and colleges: "Only too often the finest member of the faculty is the janitor...
...first six years after acquiring the Raeburn, Huntington spent $6,000,000. By his death in 1927, he had assembled the finest collection of 18th Century British portraits in the U.S. (among them: Thomas Gainsborough's Blue Boy). And his purchases of 100,000 rare books and 1,000,000 precious manuscripts made him, in Bibliophile A.S.W. Rosenbach's judgment, "without doubt the greatest collector of books the world has ever known." In the judgment of Englishmen who hated to see their treasures taken off, he was one of history's colossal despoilers...
...airplane pilot 50 miles away. It is also one of the world's most precious topographical oddities. Caué is Brazil's Iron Mountain, a fabulous lode of some of the world's best ore, pure enough (up to 68%) to compete with Sweden's finest, vast enough to challenge Minnesota's great Mesabi...