Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interview with the CRIMSON yesterday, "and the city surpasses others because its atmosphere and accommodations are well-suited to the needs and desires of those who follow the stage for their profession." Miss Brice, who is at present playing in the Ziegfeld Follies in Boston, is one of the foremost comediennes in this country and is well known for her amusing dances and burlesques...
Professor James Ewing, foremost U. S. authority on tumors and an ultraconservative scientist, was made the subject of glaring U. S. headlines last week for a speech he made in Madrid. To the Inter national Cancer Congress there he merely said: "Sunlight is one of the greatest causes of cancer. Even trips to the beach often result in skin cancer." The headline transmutation of Professor Swing's qualified statement became positive: "SAYS NUDISM BREEDS CANCER...
Expert fly-fishermen regard dandified little George Michel Lucien LaBranche as their foremost U. S. authority. His Dry Fly and Fast Water is an angler's lexicon. Occasionally, for reasons which his friends have never been able to discover, he goes fishing in hipboots, cutaway, light waistcoat, wing collar. Fisherman LaBranche is also a stockbroker, and a rich one. He learned his trade at the swift hand of an authority as revered among brokers as is Mr. LaBranche among fishermen. For years he was secretary to the late great Speculator James R. Keene, whom J. P. Morgan the Elder...
PAST MASTERS - Thomas Mann - Knopf ($2.50). Collected lectures on Wagner. Nietzsche, Tolstoy, Freud et al. by Germany's foremost novelist...
...race will be a close one with entries full of fast runners. Foremost of the host of favorites is William Bonthron of Princeton who upset predictions by winning both the 1500 meter and the 3000 meter in the I.C.4A. meet here at Cambridge last spring. He is one of the leading milers of the country, and is expected to win. The Harvard chances, however, seem very good this year. Robert S. Playfair '36 and Arthur S. Pier '35 lead the ten Crimson runners who are entered. Playfair is Harvard's best prospect in the race. Last year, he lost...