Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father was a sculptor. All six of his sons followed his example: Ferucchio, now 73 and back in Italy; Furio, 71, specialist in animal figures; Tommaso, 69, summering last week at Far Rockaway, L. I.; Attilio, 67, foremost sculptor of the brothers; Horatio, 65, another animal specialist; Guitilio, 63, marble carver, critic and the firm's businessman. All but Ferucchio are now U. S. citizens...
Almost seven score and seven years ago the U. S. with patriarchal dignity named its foremost citizens to the Electoral College, allowed them in their wisdom to choose their leading patriot and biggest landowner, General George Washington, as first President of a new and independent nation. Next autumn the U. S. will launch the Philippine Commonwealth as a new and independent nation in its own image. Last week Filipinos got down to the serious business of electing their first President. The affair promised to be no patriarchal rite...
...Raven (Universal). Bela ("Dracula") Lugosi and Boris ("Frankenstein") Karloff, foremost U. S. cinemonsters, first played together in The Black Cat, "suggested" by Edgar Allan Poe's story (TIME, May 28, 1934). The Raven "suggested" by that frail, pathetic poet's best-known poem, suffers chiefly from the obligation its producers felt to give it more bloodcurdling situations and paraphernalia than The Black Cat. Consequently the picture is stuffed with horrors to the point of absurdity. One imposing piece of equipment is a bedroom which descends to the basement like an elevator when its owner wishes to harass...
Paramount did not go down without a struggle. There was nothing fundamentally wrong with its first & foremost function- making, distributing and exhibiting films. Its troubles were almost wholly financial. And in 1931 its bankers cajoled John Daniel Hertz into taking the Paramount command as chairman of the finance committee. The thickset, sinewy Chicago financier had been making half-hearted attempts to retire since 1926 when he sold his Yellow Cab Manufacturing Co. to General Motors for more than a few millions...
...University of Virginia, he spent a year abroad, returned to become professor of pathology, then professor of medicine in Birmingham Medical College. After that College had become the postgraduate department of the University of Alabama, Dr. McLester became professor of medicine there. In passing he investigated and became a foremost authority on nutrition and diet in health and disease. "Nutrition and the Future of Man" is the subject of his presidential address next week...