Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bank after Bank. Signatories to the manifesto included two directors of the Bank of England, the chairman or a director of each of the "big five" banks, and a partner of such foremost fiscal houses of the realm as Morgan, Grenfell...
...Louisville of influential Bohemian Jewish immigrants. At 20 he was graduated from Harvard Law School. He practiced in Boston from 1879 until his Supreme Court appointment. In Boston he had few Jewish clients or friends; his intimates were Back Bay Bostonians-Harvard's late President Charles William Eliot foremost among them...
...Author. Gabrielle Colette, 57, foremost living French woman writer, was born in the provinces of bourgeois parents, still speaks French with a Burgundian accent. Onetime barnstormer, dancer, Colette draws, writes music, has recently written a ballet for Composer Maurice Ravel. She knows so much about food that even the French consider her a gourmet. Animal-lover, she keeps wild dogs, wild cats in her Paris apartment. She reads very little. Short, thickset, she has wood-colored hair, long grey slanting eyes, speaks in a deep alto. Other books: Chéri, La Vagabonde. La Naissance du Jour, L'Entrave...
When the American Physical Society met last week at Cornell University (Ithaca, N. Y.) they were read momentous pages from Faraday's unpublished diary. The reader: Sir William Bragg, onetime Nobel Prizeman, England's foremost living physicist, who owns the diary...
...LIFE AND MIND OF EMILY DICKINSON-Genevieve Taggard-Knopf ($4). Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, foremost woman poet of her country, wrote thousands of poems, never published one during her lifetime. Since her death (1886) her poetry and the secrets of her spinster life have gradually been coming to light...