Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME were to speak quite casually and parenthetically of "an address by Sen. James Thomas Heflin, the greatest statesman since Lincoln," its error would be no more astounding...
...greatest tax suit in U. S. chronicles is not a time to economize on legal talent. The defendants have hired an impressive force: Joseph E. Davies, onetime chairman of the Federal Trade Commission; John W. Davis, De- mocratic nominee for President in 1924; and others, perhaps Charles E. Hughes. Against these bigwigs, Secretary Mellon has sent a smart young man of 27-Alexander W. Gregg. Mr. Mellon has been accused of possessing many kinds of genius, and not the least of them is his ability to pick certain youths from among other youths, and lift them to fame. Mr. Gregg...
...daughter of Lithuanian serfs. She washed some foul breeches so charmingly for a trooper, that a sergeant took her for his doll. From her knobby washboard she vaulted, with the ad- miration of an army corps, beyond the antechamber of Peter the Great. He was a humorist-perhaps the greatest. With a fillip never equaled by another monarch he set his laundress, bouncing and buxom, on the world's tallest throne...
...Poker is the greatest game of chance; but I very seldom...
...from far away New Mexico, comes rumor that The King's Henchman is completed, is Miss Millay's greatest achievement. According to her host-companion Poet Arthur Ficke, "it begins on a high heroic plane and mounts steadily in dramatic interest. It is mag-nificent." It sings of an English King who despatched his bosom friend, centuries ago, to seek out the Thane of Devon, to bring back word whether the Thane's daughter is really as fair as tradition would have her. On All Hallows' Eve the ambassador beholds the beauty stealing timidly over...