Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...place will be taken by an able, active young priest who was once of nearby Whitman, Mass. Last week this hope was partly realized. Ap pointed to be titular Bishop of Sila and Auxiliary Bishop of Boston was Monsignor Francis Joseph Spellman, for the past seven years the foremost U. S. prelate at the Vatican. Born 43 years ago the son of a Whitman grocer, "Frank" Spellman is recalled by at least one person - a Whitman taxicab driver - as an able baseball player. He went to Whitman High School, was graduated from Fordham University in 1911. The next five years...
...Congressional committee headed by Representative Joseph B. Shannon of Missouri is touring the country to register complaints of anyone whose profession or business the Government impedes by competition. Last week the committee was in Kansas City. To it hastened merchants, manufacturers, farmers, and Kansas City's foremost x-ray man-Dr. Edward Holman Skinner. Dr. Skinner, a War veteran, wants the Government to cease building hospitals to treat injured veterans. He wants only those veterans who were disabled by actual military servive to get free Government medical care. At present any ex-service man can get free treatment...
Though eclipsed by many another French writer, in the opinion of many a big and little wig, Andre Maurois (real name: Emile Herzog) stands first in the eyes of a majority of his countrymen, is now generally regarded as France's foremost living writer. Readers who eschew the unsteady brilliance of Jean Cocteau, the cold amorality of Andre Gide, turn with relief to the sympathetic charm, the Judaic kindliness, of Author Maurois. His ironic fire, at its fiercest only kindled laughter, never burnt anyone. An unembarrassing writer, his manners are beautiful-although, like most good manners, a little banal...
...Anna Held sing "won't you come and play wiz me?" in England. He invited her to New York and in 1896 put her into his first theatrical production A Parlour Match. For twelve years she played in one after another mildly daring show of his, became America's foremost showgirl and Mrs. Ziegfeld...
...name to conjure with is Frank Julian Sprague's, yet last week the foremost electrical engineers of the land and scores of other celebrities gathered in Manhattan to do him honor on his 75th birthday. They called him the "father of modern electric traction" (both horizontal and vertical). Listening quizzically, he beamed behind his mustache, half closed his keen old eyes...