Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...country, and especially its Republican politicians, spent the week recovering from what Pat McKenna, White House doorman since before Calvin Coolidge was even married, described as the greatest shock in all the 24 years of his official life. The shock had come gently to Mr. McKenna at that. Before he broke his rule of a quarter-century and stuck his head into the President's office to see what went on, he had been forewarned of some portentous happening by a sharp burst of ejaculations from within. Mr. Mc-Kenna's head entered the President's office just...
...greatest enemy to church membership is not affiliation with union labor but the disorganization in personal life which comes from the migratory tendency of the unattached laborer...
Lately this "greatest golfer the world ever saw," assisted by a news scribe who long ago made the Jones career his own, has found time to write an autobiography.* The book reads as though Rob Jones had dropped in after Sunday supper on his good neighbors, the U. S. public, and fallen to swapping reminiscences, informally, naturally, letting himself be drawn out but not without deprecations such as, "Oh, I don't know about that, now," and confessions like, "I was cocky, all right...
Considers "the greatest shot" he ever saw was Ted Ray's 170-yard mashie niblic from behind a 40-foot tree...
...dark hollow in the atom." The nerves of his writing are taut under elemental strains?the strain of the Pacific against its granite boundaries, of a mountainous coast verging on earthquake, of oil tanks about to explode and consume themselves, of brains splitting with a dasmon. His greatest word...