Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...offensive, the Meuse and the Argonne, that social duties slipped his mind. Probably there was no book of etiquette at hand in his spare military headquarters. Possibly it would not have helped him anyway. A delicate question faced him. A great Democrat, he had no Christmas present for the greatest Democrat, President Woodrow Wilson. The shops around Luxembourg were bare. He particularly needed a notable present, different from anyone's else; intrinsically rare and of great value. He decided to give Mr. Wilson Kaiser Wilhelm...
...were soon sold to stronger teams. Boston has been in or near the baseball cellar long enough to be smeared with the damps and cobwebs of depression. Last week, in one of the most astounding trades in the intricate business annals of the game, Rogers Hornsby, some say the greatest second baseman of all time, went to Boston in exchange for a young catcher and an inconspicuous outfielder...
After this there was a clamor about the most fitting burial place for so great an author. It was decided that the ashes of the man who had written, in the last paragraph of one of his greatest novels, "'Justice was done' . . . and the President of the Immortals had ended his sport with Tess. . . ." should be taken to Westminster Abbey, burial place of famed Englishmen, preserved in a vault. His heart, removed from his body before cremation, was buried in the earth at Dorchester...
...people who have never read Hardy; The Return of the Native has a hard power that, in some opinions, places it above Jude the Obscure. A Pair of Blue Eyes, The Mayor of Casterbridge, both fine novels, are not quite up to the level of Hardy's greatest work...
During the Civil War, these two young Bostonians carried on a highly interesting correspondence. Ropes was at the time a student of law, while Gray was an officer in the Union Army. Their letters are of the greatest value as a source book of first-hand information, reproducing in a lively manner the day-by-day progress of the Civil War. Illustrated...