Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sailors. She has a former lover and an irascible father of impeccable lineage. These splatter the stage with farce and melodrama to a happy, if firmly foregone, conclusion. Helen McKellar, called to the part on less than a week's notice, is more than fitted for the foremost role...
Emil Ludwig is one of the foremost writers of biography today, already known in this country for his studies of Napoleon and Wilhem HohenzoHern. In this new book, prefaced by an introduction on the writings of history, he deals with nineteen men of genius, Frederick the Great, Wilson, Bismarck, Lenin, Da Vinci, Voltaire, Rembrandt, Byron, Balzac, Shakespeare, Goethe and eight others. In this work one will find Ludwig's theory of the causes and effects of the appearance of a world genius in human society...
...realm of fable and fancy will send two of its foremost citizens. George Ade, whose "Fables in Slang" delighted American and European readers of two decades ago, and George Barr McCutcheon, creator and king of the realm of Graustark, will be the two authors who claim Purdue as their Alma Mater, while J. T. McCutcheon, the cartoonist, will complete the trio of alumni which will carry the Purdue colors into the Stadium...
...Foremost among the books announced for late fall publication by the Harvard University Press, many written by Harvard University Press, many written by Harvard men, is the publication of the first series of lectures given last year by Professor Gilbert Murray under the Charles Eliot Norton Foundation. This is entitled "The Classical Tradition in Poetry," and will be published late in October...
...Foremost among the social features of the Business School is the Student's Club, located in one of the buildings of the new plant. The Student's Club corresponds very closely to the Harvard Union, except for the fact that its membership is limited to students of the school. Like the Union, lectures are given by prominent men during the year under its auspices, and social gatherings are held after football games for members and their friends...