Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matters might develop in a more practical direction was the theme of The Great Pacific War published eight years ago by Hector Bywater, foremost British naval commentator, critic and on-paper strategist. His book makes plausibly exciting reading in 1933, two years after the imaginary struggle was to have started. Declares Author Bywater in his preface...
...When President-elect Roosevelt visited California last September, he was entertained by Producer Jack Warner who hopes to make himself the Industry's foremost Democrat, as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Louis B. Mayer has been its foremost Republican. Last week Producer Warner announced that he had accepted, not only for himself but for his employes, an invitation to attend President-elect Roosevelt's inauguration. The Warner party's train, which will go to Washington via San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Omaha, Denver, Akron, McKeesport, New Haven, Bridgeport, and 46 other cities, with 15 or more Warner...
Died. Marie Adrienne Anne Victurnienne Clémentine de Rochechouart de Crussol, Dowager Duchess d'Uzes, 85, for 60 years France's foremost socialite, able huntswoman, sculptress, novelist, playwright; of pneumonia; at the home of her daughter Duchess de Luynes; in Dapierre, France. Relict and mother of France's senior dukes, she was spoken of in French society simply as "La Duchesse." Out of her immense Veuve Cliquot vineyard incomes she financed General Georges Boulanger's intrigue in the 1880's to return monarchy to France. After a youth as the "most beautiful, best-born...
Jamestown, first Virginia settlement, was like a mosquito bite that is scratched and scratched until it becomes a permanent feature. First & foremost a gambling venture, it naturally attracted gamblers rather than serious colonists. In the medley of ex-pirates, Spanish spies, gold-seekers and riff-raff that came to Virginia hoping to find it a way-station to Eldorado, Soldier of Fortune John Smith was one of the biggest troublemakers. A farmer's son who had won his spurs fighting against the Turks, he was hot-tempered, stocky, boastful and brave. When Chief Powhatan's warriors captured...
Aside from the usual arguments relative to the social advantages of the inter-House dining system, the case for Freshman inclusion is made cogent by characteristics peculiar to itself. Foremost, of course, is the necessity that first year men have some basis on which to make their choice of a House. At present, that choice is founded, generally, on rumor, on chance, on any number of vague reasons. It is conceivable that if dining in the Houses did not imply an imposition on his upper class friends, the Freshman would have an excellent opportunity to become acquainted with all seven...