Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...artifice of paradox is essential to the art of politics. Desiring peace among themselves, the Democrats dined together last week in the name of their greatest fighter?Andrew Jackson. Desiring to unite behind one man and on one platform, they suppressed their enthusiasm for their most popular man?Alfred Emanuel Smith, who was not present?and they tiptoed across a central plank in his platform?Prohibition, which loomed in the minds...
...found only in science and technology.'' He concluded ably: "I have seen only three great men in Europe this year. One is Bernard Shaw, far greater as an educator than a playwright; another is Einstein, who changed the fundamental ideas of our entire world, and the third, perhaps the greatest of all, is President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia, who first dreamed his nation, then made it, and then governed...
...Greatest of living Hungarian dramatists, slyest of cynics, surest of technicians, he has had successful plays in Manhattan theatres almost continuously since the U. S. premiere of Liliom (1921). Successes: The Swan, The Guardsman, The Play's the Thing, and many another...
...Church over the temporal affairs of its communicants have made few converts. No logic can move the man who says flatly that he will not elect for his president one who has kissed the Pope's ring, even, it may be supposed, if the one in question is the greatest governor New York ever had. The stupid assertions about drinking that have been made by drys who now oppose Smith, are incredible enough, but atatcks on Catholicism by religious enemies of the Governor, by the example of Mr. Hefflin, are now seen to present even greater possibilities...
Last Saturday afternoon Professor Archibald Cary Coolidge, a member of the class of 1887, died at his home in Boston after many years of service to the University as one of its greatest scholars and teachers, and to the Political world at large as a clearsighted and sound adviser...