Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scene and absence of any dramatic tempo throughout the picture. Lewis Stone, one of our favorites, takes the part of the head of the German secret agents, yet he is never permitted to step beyond the portals of a drab office room. Lionel Barrymore, one of Hollywood's foremost character actors has little opportunity to do more than pluck nervously at his moustache...
...Chandler . . . came to our Salt River Valley in 1887. He has been foremost in the development of the Valley, and founded Chandler...
...Smith. That notion was clubbed into the public mind by headlines far bigger and more numerous than any British airman has since received. It was deepened last year by publication in Liberty of a collection of testimonials by other famed airmen to Kingsford-Smith's prowess. Fortnight ago the foremost British aeronautical editor gave his definition of the foremost British flyer: Harold J. L. ("Bert") Hinkler?like Kingsford-Smith, an Australian. The editor: iconoclastic Charles Grey Grey of The Aeroplane...
Francis Bret Harte (1836-1902)** arrived on the U. S. scene about the same time as Mark Twain, for a time rivaled him as foremost Western writer. Harte was born in Albany, N. Y., never liked his adopted State of California very much, and spent the last 24 years of his life abroad. A writer of serious ambitions, he rode to fame on the gales of laughter caused by a funny poem of which he was ashamed...
...almost as shiny as his horn-rimmed spectacles, the Egyptian Minister to the U. S., Sesostris Sidarouss Pasha was there, beaming at one & all, and especially at the rosy little man with fluffy white hair and bright blue eyes whose day and party it was, Dr. James Henry Breasted, foremost Egyptologist...