Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sight to break the expanse of featureless days until Armistice Day, some twelve days hence. One of the best ways to start on this stretch is to attend Professor Kittredge's lecture on Chaucer at 10 o'clock in Sever 11 this morning. Professor Kittredge is one of the foremost authorities on this first of English poets and hearing him should do much towards making the Tabard Inn and the Nonne Prieste of more than remote interest...
Secretive as usual, the Agent General would say nothing. No official communiqués were issued. But leading correspondents convinced themselves with significant unanimity that the developments of last week were preparatory, preliminary. The world's foremost fiscal tycoons were understood to have debated principally questions of the organization and procedure to be followed by the new International Financial Commission, which will reopen the Reparations Question. A leading point at issue between the tycoons was ascertained to be whether the experts attached to the Commission shall be private financiers or governmental treasury experts. Agent Gilbert was understood to have...
Quickly, they admitted Pioneers Ford, Schwab, Rosenwald, Eastman, Firestone and Speakers Swift, Taylor, Gifford, Mitchell and many another U. S. businessman to tycoonship. And with enthusiasm they claimed Honor Guest Lord Melchett as Foremost and Mightiest British Tycoon...
GREAT BRITAIN "Piggy People" Smart and sportsmanly Britons have long playfully called each other "horsey people"; and last week it began to seem that foremost British statesmen will soon be known as "piggy people." For some years, the hobby of pig keeping has been pursued by His Majesty's Prime Minister, the Right Honorable Stanley Baldwin; but last week despatches significantly announced that prizes have now been taken by a sow and a litter, respectively, hailing from the piggeries of two more Cabinet ministers. The sow appertains to His Majesty's Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Honorable...
...Ritz -.Tower, Manhattan, journeyed last week over 200 manufacturers and advertisers of these products. When each and every one had come to order, the first general U. S. fashion conference was declared to be in session. Experts and analysts explained and prophesied the swift revolutions of fashion. Foremost among fashion students, Manhattan's Amos Parrish (TIME, Aug. 20) distributed credit for notable efforts to make the U. S. fashion-conscious. Mr. Parrish praised...