Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Polish Sejm [Parliament], which I call a prostitute, purposely framed the Constitution so that the greatest shame which savage, ignorant brains could devise would be placed on the nation's most popular man. . . . The President of Poland is not permitted even to select his valet or his maid, much less his Ministers. No one would think of treating a servant in the infamous manner in which the Constitution handles the President...
...bank's management and to be sued for $1,850,000 by 7,000 depositors. Still more embarrassing to be a U. S. Senator when these things happen. And most embarrassing of all, thought observers, for aged U. S. Senator Francis Emory Warren of Wyoming ("The Greatest Shepherd Since Abraham"), against whom the $1,850,000 suit was brought last week. Senator Warren, of all Senators, might be considered a sound bank official. For many a year he has managed fiscal matters of great import to the U. S. as chairman of the potent Senate Committee on Appropriations...
Though the phenomenon of the Shahkta Trial is now in its second month, proceedings are still in the most preliminary stage. No evidence has been heard concerning the Prosecution's astounding charge that the sabotage ring was partially financed by one of the greatest public utility corporations in the world, the A. E. G. (Allgemeine Elektrizitats-Gesellschaft) or General Electric Company of Germany...
Europe, characterized the U. S. as one of the greatest influences toward international brotherhood and as "that great, great republic which has inspired free government of the earth to fight for freedom...
This vivid expose of gambling dens and brothels, with their picaresque inmates, falls short of melodrama without losing excitement. The faithful account of all the greatest gang leaders sometimes runs to a monotony of horrors, but is soon varied with naive tong wars, and prosperous "fences"-fat women who bought and sold the loot of robbers...