Word: grandest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dangerous opponents in the International Cup matches in September. The captain of the Argentine team is Jack Nelson, rich breeder of ponies, horses, cattle. Then there is Lewis L. Lacey, a ten-handicap player, blue-eyed, slight of frame, five and a half feet tall, one of the grandest poloists in the world. He made famous the hit in midair, and it became known as a "Lacey." His appearance in the U. S. in 1926 was a sensation and a popular one. Last year he was operated on for appendicitis, but his game has been at its peak ever since...
...Angel Gallardo expressed his "amazement," and President de Alvear openly flayed Senor Pueyrredon for "such conduct." Both knew that with an Argentine presidential election scheduled for this spring, Senor Pueyrredon had made the grandest of grandstand plays to convince the electorate that he alone is of sufficiently tough presidential timber to stand up for Argentina, even against the U. S. With Outpopper Pueyrredon thus self-eliminated, the treaty reorganizing the Pan-American Union was submitted in innocuous form to the plenary session of the Conference...
...unified crime. We even go so far as to indorse such a service and to offer our plans for the opening ceremonial call, The underground connection having been established we set a definite time on such and such a day for the official inauguration of the latest and grandest achievement of science. The leading thugs and gunmeu of our great middle Western metropolis will congregate at one end of the line and the cream of Cambridge gentlemen robbers will assemble in Arthur's Smoke Shop on the other...
...grandest football game that ever I saw, we staged in the Stadium last year against Yale. We were the under dog, playing one of Yale's greatest teams, but she came up just the same and fought the Elis off the field. That's the kind of a game I enjoy...
Michigan. The scale on which things are done in Detroit is becoming legendary. First there was Ford's output; then an 81-story skyscraper; and now the revelations of vice conducted there in the grandest possible manner. Rockefeller Foundation investigators gave Detroit its latest sobriquet, "vilest city in the country," and last week Mayor John W. Smith set about finding out if such distinction was deserved. The Rockefeller men had reported 711 disorderly houses within a mile of Mayor Smith's office and no one was astonished when Mayor Smith's police commissioner, Frank H. Croul, resigned...