Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...growing opposition in the Chamber of Deputies of the Bloc National (whose foremost leaders are President Millerand, ex-Premier "Tiger" Clemenceau, Deputy Andre Tardieu) to Premier Raymond Poincare was accentuated by his illness, reported from fatigue...
Gustave Hervé, editor-in-chief of the Victoire, who in 1917 was foremost in the clamor for Clemenceau, and who is now believed to speak for the Elysee, wrote thus of Premier Poincaée: "It is most regrettable that a man who is so upright, a patriot so sincere, a worker so prodigious, should fail France which counted so much on him. By whom can he be replaced? Is there none better among our politicians? Yes, there is old Clemenceau and his team. They made the Treaty of Versailles which was not perfect, which was not as good...
...introducing subways in order to produce new advertising space. It has conceived a broad scheme of national advertising, to be accomplished by the patriot ship--"Italia," which is to cruise the seas of South America, carrying specimens of Italian manufacture, art, and literature to all the foremost republics of the southern continent. It is a propaganda ship--a veritable floating "Italian Exposition"--to impress the Latin inhabitants of South America, and to stimulate commerce and intercourse between the "Latinity" of the old and the new worlds. Professedly. It aims to counteract the influence of the United States in the South...
William Lyon Phelps' foreword to the catalogue: "An exhibition of the works of Mr. John Sargent is the most important event of this kind that could at this moment happen anywhere, as he is the foremost living painter in the world. He has no successful living rival, but is in a class by himself...
...believe in the Bible, and North Carolina is taking a foremost place in the world because she does not allow herself to be carried off her feet by every propagator of a new religion...