Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carpet were called the Island Kingdom's foremost capitalists, the Directors of the Bank of Iceland. They did not come shivering, for the kindly Gulf Stream makes Reykjavik winters temperate. In fact "Iceland" is a complete misnomer for a land abounding in volcanoes and hot springs (many a farmer warms his house with hot water radiators piped directly from his spring). But though the Directors of the Bank of Iceland did not come shivering they came shamefaced...
...Grand Abbot of Ching-Chung Monastery," indeed the "Foremost of the Pear Orchard," disembarked from an ocean steamship in Seattle last week. He was a small, girlish-looking Chinese gentleman. In his curiously carven and vivid luggage were layers of sumptuous fabrics, great coils and shining lumps of jewelry. Twenty Chinamen accompanied "The Grand Abbot of Ching-Chung Monastery," certain of them bearing strangely shaped cases containing musical instruments...
...Foremost of the Pear Orchard" was Mei Lan-fang of Peiping. Despite his titles, he was neither a monk nor a fruit-grower. Numerous Chinamen and Seattle dignitaries who met him at the boat welcomed him as China's greatest actor, come to introduce his art to the U. S. Mei Lan-fang and his company begin a U. S. tour in Manhattan...
...onetime Emperor Hsuan T'ung in the Yang Hsin Palace of the Forbidden City. There he was presented with delicate, imperial porcelains and dubbed "Grand Abbot of Ching-Chung Monastery," traditional title bestowed by the Manchu Emperors on their favorite actors. He was also allowed to retain the title "Foremost of the Pear Orchard" which is derived from the fact that during the T'ang Dynasty court actors called themselves "Disciples of the Pear Orchard" because they performed in a palace bordered with pear trees. Few would deny any title, however lofty, to a man who, in addition to being...
Professor Dewey is admirably qualified to serve as first William James Lecturer in Philosophy. His philosophic writings have distinguished him as one of the foremost of living American philosophers, and it is agreeable to find a figure of his caliber in a position linked by name to one of the great heritages of Harvard scholarship. No less satisfying is the knowledge that the first professor to hold the new Kuno Francke Chair of German Art and Culture is to be so well qualified for his post as Professor Goldschmidt's previous work at Harvard has proved...