Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peabody Playhouse, would have been tortured into a drama of epic grandcur. It has all the essentials of an O'Neill magnum opus; there's murder, and adultery, and starved sexuality, and problems of passion galore. It might very well have been worked up by America's foremost tragedian into a magnificent scream-fest, with an hour out for supper and a year's run on Broadway...
...MODERN THEME-Jose Ortega y Gasset-Norton ($2). Expanded lecture by one of Spain's foremost thinkers, author of The Revolt of the Masses...
...weaving plots against the Royal House, stirring up the populace and driving King Alexander frantic, the foremost family in all Jugoslavia are the Brothers Pribitchevitch and their innumerable relations (TIME, June...
...Augusta National is a project planned along the lines of the National Golf Links of America, in Long Island's Shinnecock Hills; a links to rank among the world's finest for the use of the country's foremost. Back of the idea was Fielding Wallace, Augusta textile manufacturer who makes "press cloth" out of human hair imported from China. He and his friends formed the holding company to buy a tract of 364 acres, of which the club now uses 192. Memberships-of which Bobby Jones, the club's president, thinks 500 will be plenty...
There are 77 Johnsons (and Johnstons), 62 Joneses. Newton Diehl Baker contributes the sketch of his fellow-townsman Tom Loftin Johnson, capitalist (street railways), who was converted to the single tax by Henry George and became Cleveland's foremost Mayor (1901-09). George Jones, co-founder of the New York Times in 1851, is distinguished among Joneses and newspaper publishers by reason of having refused an offer of $5,000,000 to abandon his crusade against Tammany Boss William Marcy Tweed...