Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...return, however, to Howells. In his time he was considered the foremost exponent of the realistic school of American literature. His is not the sordid realism of a Dreiser, but perhaps it is none the less realistic for that. We are not all degenerates and abnormals. Howells purpose was to give us a picture of life as it is, with all its little common, ordinary happenings, and yet to make the reader like it, and see the inner meaning behind everything. In this aim he succeeded admirably, enrichening his stories with a humor that rings very true. In "The Rise...
...whole state one enormous farm of stretching fields of grain and pastures. The people, nearly 90% of them of foreign stock, are sturdy, simple. Not only grain and livestock were bred in this fruitful farmland, but stalwart men as well. From Nebraska came William Jennings Bryan, the silver-tongued, foremost popular orator of his day; General John J. Pershing, first in command of the U. S. soldiery in the World War; Charles Bryan, Nebraska's idealist Governor (1923.-25); Gilbert M. Hitchcock, onetime Democratic leader of the Senate; Charles G. Dawes came out of Nebraska, went to the Vice President...
...more Nebraskan, George Wiliam Norris, Republican, is, with the possible exception of Senator Borah of Idaho, the foremost liberal in the U. S. Senate. Nearly a quarter century ago, his state sent this farmer lawyer from the plains to the House of Representatives. He was and is homely, unimposing, with bristling hair over a broad brow and keen deep-set eyes; he had and has courage, industry and a ready tongue. First in the House (1903-13), later in the Senate (1913-31) he bitterly fought favoritism and oppression in all its varied forms. Gilbert M. Hitchcock, Democrat, his fellow...
...idea," continued Professor Chaffee, "it has been thought of ever since the invention of the telephone, but it was only last Thursday night that it was accomplished. Among many others J. F. Jenkins of Washington, The General Electric Company, and the Bell Telephone Company, have been foremost in the experimenting with television. I think that great credit should go to the Bell Telephone Company for its success in both the Trans-Atlantic Telephone, and in television...
Before ending this splurge of architectural enthusiasm the Vagabond strongly advises all his fellows to attend the lecture of Ernest Newman at Symphony Hall this evening. Mr. Newman, the music critic of the London Sunday Times, is considered one of the foremost authorities in the world, and has come all the way from England especially to deliver this lecture in connection with the Beethoven Centenary...