Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obstacles isn't tempting . . ." wrote the playwright. And now marriage with all its obstacles is even less tempting. Count Keyserling, in his symposium, The Book of Marriage, raises no new cry, stampedes no staid world, but comes instead to a world in chaos, and to a subject of the greatest controversial significance, bringing with him the judgment of "twenty four leaders of contemporary thought...
Miss Giannini has just returned from a concert tour in Europe, where the music world of Paris, London and Berlin acclaimed her as one of the greatest living sopranos. She is an American born and lives in Brooklyn, New York, although she has spent many years in study abroad...
...expositor shows Nietzsche as an excellent example of his own theory that a philosophy is primary an expression of the philosopher's personality. At first a pessimist because he was sick in body and mind, Nietzsche conquered the fear of pain by sheer willpower, and became thereby the greatest of optimists, which means, according to his own definition, that he learned to say YEA to everything in life. Nietzsche, by understanding himself and by courageously looking at everything in the face, helps those who study him to understand themselves and to boldly exercise free inquiry in all matters...
Recently Kuhn, Loeb & Co. have revived their interests in the railroads of the northwest. They represented the buyers, at auction, of the $750,000,000 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul (TIME, Dec. 6) and have been one of the agents for Arthur Curtiss James, greatest railroad stockholder, in his gaining control of the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific...
...Paris, after several years in London, lives a thin-bearded, long, supple blade of a man, middle-ag-ing but of feverish vitality, whom "the foremost English novelist" (Ford Madox Ford) calls "the greatest living poet." This is not cant between members of a mutual adulation society. Many an-other able artist pays homage to Novelist Ford's bearded friend. They consult him about their pictures, statues, books, love affairs. They are not dazzled by his often eccentric habits and raiment, seeing within him a spirit like a flame blown in the wind. He is a genuine "original...