Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...back to 1890 when he first entered the U. S. Senate. ... And perhaps in 1931, when his present term expires, he will be guiding his last annual three-billion-dollaf flock of appropriation bills through a stormy Senate with the skillful hand that gave him the subtitle of "The Greatest Shepherd since Abraham...
...adjournment, a Democrat, Representative Edward W Pou of North Carolina, sounded the name of Nicholas Longworth, said: A great many of us feel that our old enemy, the Republican Party, might do itself proud if in time it shall put him [Mr Longworth] forth as a candidate for the greatest office in the gift the American people and the entire world. He has been tried in the political fire. He stands forth today without a mark against his fair name. He stands forth as a rugged, typical American. We all on our side and on both sides wish him well...
...huge blood-red disc above the stage, bearing the Hammer and Sickle, emblems of Soviet Russia, was hung. A vast crowd surged- peasants in blouses, urban workers in tight, shoddy store clothes. They had come to hear the first public speech in four months by Russia's greatest orator, famed Leon Trotzky. All knew that M. Trotzky had been silent perforce, following the crushing of his section of the Communist party by Dictator Josef Stalin (TIME, Oct. 25). When Comrade Trotzky slipped upon the stage last week, pale, wiry, magnetic, there was stamping, applause and cheers for 15 minutes...
...years ago when she was a symbol of beauty. In cinema she has recently been cast as the suffering mother. The English critics thought her at least equal to Mrs. Pat Crimpbell. Ellen Terry, in their most glorious days. She was recalled ten times-the greatest demonstration since Sarah Bernhardt's appearance. She tried to make a speech but found herself choked with uncontrollable emotion. The audience continued to cheer, to wipe its eyes, to cheer Miss Frederick's mother seated in a stall, to cheer the floral wreaths as they were offered...
...last foray, against the medical profession (Arrowsmith, 1925) and a parallel course is run, from up-creek tabernacles, through a hayseed college and seminary to a big-city edifice with a revolving electric cross. But the Arrowsmith plot is altered. This time the Castigator, instead of exerting his greatest efforts in harrying a fine-mettled creature to refuge in the wilderness, singles out the biggest boar in sight and hounds him into a gratifyingly slimy slough. The tale has an obscure hero, another Lewisian lie-hunter who, to purge the last bitter dregs of pity and fear, gets his gentle...