Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present time Salvemini is a man without a country, because of his anti-Fascist views as a professor of History at the University of Florence, and he is considered the unquestioned leader of the anti-Fascists, and the foremost antagonist of Mussolini...
...have resulted in his subsequent deformity. As a grown man he could not dress himself, had to wear a stiff corset when he walked, supported himself with a cane. Precocious rhymester, ambitious poet, he intended to be not only great but "correct." At 25 he was one of the foremost literary men in England, received £5,000 or £6,000 for his translation of the Iliad. He was in love at least once, with Martha Blount, but realizing the hopelessness of his getting married, he transferred his affections to food. His most famed affair (purely conversational, literary...
Hell Harbor (United Artists). Jean Hersholt, the cinema's foremost exponent of a new, modern kind of villainy, a villainy with depth, individuality and something understandable and human about it, is here a German brigand who makes a good living buying and selling the produce of an obscure island in the Caribbean Sea. Among his current deals is one, negotiated with the lady's father, for possession of Lupe Velez. Like Hersholt, Miss Velez has a specialty in her acting: she is a professional Latin spitfire. Director Henry King, whose specialty is the reproduction of romantic and dangerous...
When the Graf Zeppelin flew the world last summer, air-minded U. S. financiers blinked interested eyes at the potentialities in lighter-than-air travel. Foremost among the blinkers was Charles Edwin Mitchell, board chairman of National City Bank. While public excitement died down after the accomplishment of the Graf, he kept the financial pot simmering, aroused potent protagonists. In October 1929, International Zeppelin Transport Corp. was incorporated under the laws of Delaware...
Last week came word from Germany of a desperate economy within her foremost airline, Luft Hansa. which has come upon lean times because of decreased government subsidy for 1930. On May 1, Luft Hansa will begin an air taxi service with a force of 50 planes now idling away profitable flying time in hangars. The plan is to charge a flat rate of 44? per mile on chartered ships, irrespective of the number of passengers or whether the plane will be used for the return trip. Several passengers in one plane will make the individual rate attractively...