Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recently Mme Germanova received a letter of advice from V. I. Nemirovitch-Dantchenko, co-director of the Moscow Art Theatre. Excerpts: ". . . The Americans do not like artificiality, even though it may be beautiful. Sincerity in feelings comes foremost. Look at their charming cinema actresses - Lillian Gish (my favorite) ; Greta Garbo, the charming Janet Gaynor. Any overacting is quite out of the question! ... Do not be in a hurry to get rich. Do not be influenced by those who ring in your ears promises of hundreds of thousands. Be kind. Americans do not like evil and capricious people...
Record, who will assume the office of vice-president, studied at the New Preparatory School. He, too, played on the 1932 football team. His ability as a runner has placed him among the foremost athletes of the College. He ran on the 1932 Relay and Track teams and was a member of the Jubilee Committee...
...known to students of education, to justify also his criticisms of public schools. It is unquestionably true that there has been no general agreement, among those responsible for our present program of secondary education, upon a statement of purposes which recognizes tangible return to the supporting State as the foremost criterion of effective teaching. The purposes which have been accepted have been largely sentimental in nature. They have been based upon the apparent assumption either that every individual has an unquestioned right to all the education which he wants, or his parents want for him--at public expense, or that...
Last fortnight Helen Newington Wills, world's foremost lady tennis player, quietly married Frederick S. Moody Jr. in Berkeley, Calif., and departed immediately for a Pacific cruise on the yacht Galatea. The press followed her in a perfunctory fashion, told how a yacht club gave the pair a private dining room, how the Galatea had touched at Catalina, how they sailed away again headed south, etc., etc. There was, perhaps because of Mrs. Moody's well-known composure and lack of flair, remarkably little pother made for so newsworthy a person at so newsworthy a time...
...Harvard also has some prospective youthful contenders for America's foremost tennis representation. Donald Frame, last year's Freshman captain, went to the semi-finals in the recent tournament only to lose in a gruelling three-set match to Richardson. He also went to the finals in the doubles. Then there is also Richard Murphy, who won the tournament last year but was forced to remain out of competition this winter because of illness. Murphy is at present a Freshman in college here and should be the mainstay of Coach Cowles' Freshman squad next Spring. These two men together with...