Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aflutter, had canceled the show "because of the danger of war." Last week Peggy Guggenheim cast in her lot with London by announcing that this autumn "Guggenheim Jeune" would be expanded into a Museum of Modern Art with a fulltime curator in the person of Britain's foremost art-explainer, scholarly Herbert Read...
Leading literary pluggers for the Nazi folk-soul are: Harms Johst, Germany's foremost dramatist by default, and since 1935 head of the Reich Chamber of Literature. His Schlageter was for years almost the only presentable Nazi drama. In 1934 Johst's play Prophets was so violently anti-Semitic that it frightened even Field Marshal Goring into banning it. Johst is author of the Nazi crack: "Whenever I hear the word Culture, I reach for my revolver...
...foremost social service leaders in Massachusetts, Dr. Cabot was connected with the Medical School since after his graduation...
Former music critic in Berlin and editor of the "Zeitschrift fuer Musikwis-senschaft," Einstein had earned the reputation of one of the world's foremost muslcologists before he was exiled from Germany recently...
...Livingston Lowes has given his last lecture, Yesterday at noon, he walked into Sever 11, ascended the rostrum, and gave a short talk on Robert Herrick, the seventeenth century lyricist. Thus with the gay lines of the poet, he wrote "Finis" to his long career as one of the foremost scholars of his time a career that is remarkable in its contribution to learning. Dr. Lowes, apart from having gained invaluable experience in colleges throughout the country, has written many books on English Literature. His "The Road to Xanadu" is an analysis of Coleridge and his poetry, and "Convention...