Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boys call him, we feeel it only just to say that the treasurer of the university's humorous publication had the pick of the town. For his dainty young choice was Miss Cynthia Caredge daughter of Lalapunta's own, for her mother, Mrs. Caredge, was a foremost member of the class of '99 and is remembered for her work with the dramatic club in which she took the heavy parts. These were but two of the flowers in Blah's bouquet. Yet lack of space prohibits further comment. All the college joins in congratulating, as does the Herald, this excellent...
...Probably Britain's foremost business woman: Vice Chairman of the Time and Tide Publishing Co.; Director, Cambrian Colleries Ltd.: J. Lysaght...
...meantime, Dreiser's publishers blare forth with sensational advertisements; America's foremost living novelist, as they declare him to be, has written "with the artist's loftiest vision" a tremendous book. Somewhere in all this welter, it seems to me, must be a kernel of truth. Perhaps it is in the significant fact that "An American Tragedy" is being far from phenomenally sought by the book-buying public...
...Kellermann, who is one of the foremost authorities on German drama, was asked concerning its place in modern literature...
...German dramatists are expressionistic," he said, "and the influence of their expressionism is rapidly spreading. It has already reached England and France, and is now being introduced in the United States. Foremost among the expressionistic dramatists are Unruh Toller, Werfel, who has a play now running in New York, and Bronnen, Kaiser, and Brecht. Their aim is to make the world better. They are anti-militaristic, anti-capitalistic, anti-church, and anti-state, but by no means anarchistic...