Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make all efforts to better my culture and myself, physically and morally, so as to deserve to belong to those who serve and guide the nation in the greatest moments...
...happened to me abroad was the most pathetic. For two weeks I've been refusing good drinks." "How often?" asked incredulous newsgatherers. "Continuously." "Why?" "Hell," said the Mayor of New York, "you spoil it by asking why. I was sick!" Later the Mayor of New York said: "The greatest thrill of my life was when I knelt at the feet of the temporal head of the church in Rome...
...before 40 days and 40 nights had passed the world was plunged into the greatest war known to history...
...Folies Bergere. In his most recent Scandals, George White introduced the now virtually incessant Black Bottom. In Manhattan Mary, he supplies a prospective successor-the Five Step. Mr. White himself momentarily joins the cast to exhibit this gyration, recalling days when he was an humble hoofer** for his now greatest rival, Florenz Ziegfeld. This innovation is second only, in importance, to the appearance in the pit of Mr. Wynn leading the orchestra, in which process his back begins to itch-something that well trained conductors' backs never do. But Mr. Wynn's does, and he scratches...
While writers of three generations have been spinning yarns on the epic of the fighting frigate that captured the British vessel Guerriere, and motion pictures of this generation have aided in immortalizing it, the tale of a seaman eye-witness of its greatest victory has lain hidden in an old yellowed pamphlet in the College Library...