Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that he was married in Madrid, first swore in Rome to fight Spain, visited France, Britain, the U. S., was once self-exiled to Jamaica. Professor N. Andrew N. Cleven of the University of Pittsburgh has written: "We may safely assign to Simon Bolivar a foremost place among the great of the world." The world last week honored Bolivar as follows: U. S.: President Hoover sent a message, Secretary of State Stimson laid a wreath at the Pan American Union building in Washington. In New York, Patrick Cardinal Hayes officiated at a requiem high mass. Most of the Latin...
Beethoven's Adelaide by Baritone Heinrich Schlusnus (Brunswick, $1.50)-A foremost lieder singer displays his fine phrasing, his immaculate diction. Sing Something Simple and Happy Feet (Victor)-The Revelers again get the effects of a full-piece band. Body and Soul and With a Song in My Heart by Jack Hylton and his orchestra (Victor, $1.25)-A famed British jazzman embroiders neat concert versions of two deserving songs. Dance Records: You're Lucky to Me and Memories of You (Okeh)-For those who like hot jazz with husky singing, husky trumpets. The band is Louis Armstrong...
There are numerous reasons for maintaining the view that football practice should start a week earlier than is the present case at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. First and foremost the players and coaches both want it. Word to this effect has been received from both New Haven and Princeton; while a recent informal survey of Harvard's squad and coaching staff indicates the same generally prevailing opinion. The men feel that injuries would be fewer, and that they would be able to meet on something approaching an even basis their early season rivals, who begin practice earlier...
Associated intimately with Mr. Whiting and his concerts was George Barrere, who never failed, year in and year out, to perform on his famous flute with a perfection known only to the foremost flutists of history. And just as intimately associated as Mr. Whiting was the Gluck Melodie which he rendered every year with ever increasing freshness and variety...
...canvas ceiling for the Dennis, Mass. "Cinema" (TIME, July 28). Last month he won his suit against Delaware & Hud son R. R. for resumption of passenger service between Ausable Forks (where he has a 200-acre farm) and Plattsburg, N. Y. Kent's reputation as one of the foremost U. S. artists has grown rapidly; his illustrations for these two books will not abate his fame...