Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...item headed "Wow" in your April 20 issue. Probably the foremost dog-barker today is Tom Corwin, who takes the part of the most famous movie dog in the "Rin-tin-tin Thrillers," presented each Thursday evening over the NBC Blue Network by Chappel Bros., Rockford, 111., dog food manufacturers...
...having built the main laboratories of the Marine Biological Laboratories at Woods Hole, Mass., the main foyer with a big bronze Buddha in the centre, because the Buddhists (as Clarence Little says, and therefore claims to be one) are the only people kind to animals. . . . Woods Hole is the foremost biological research station in this country, and next to Naples, in the world...
...grammar and dictionary. "He used to say that when he set out to acquire a language, he learned swear words and after that the rest was easy." Burton was big, bearded, muscular. When he took up fencing it was in no garden-party spirit; he became one of the foremost swordsmen of Europe...
FATAL INTERVIEW-Edna St. Vincent Millay-Harper ($2). Now that Elinor Wylie is dead, Edna St. Vincent Millay has become by popular acclamation the foremost U. S. poetess. But Elinor Wylie had an unmistakably individual style; Edna St. Vincent Millay is distinguishable from the ruck of modern poets only by the uniformly high plane of her language, the clarity of her line. Like most of her fellows she is lyrical (i. e. plaintive). In this book of 52 sonnets love is all her plaint. Most tell of love lost, losing, or going out by the window; a few are hortatory...
...Author. Jo Van Ammers-Kuller, 46, called Holland's foremost novelist, likes long books with lots of relationships. To aid the unwary reader who does not realize that No Surrender is a sequel to The Rebel Generation, she has prefaced this book with a revealing but formidable genealogical table. Good and caustic when it comes to describing a family anniversary, Novelist Van Ammers-Kuller in her feminist vein gets almost committee-womanish. She started to write before she was 20, quit when she married, began again when her two boys were safe in school, her husband director...