Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Curious idlers who wondered why they had tagged along, heard him declaim: "This is one of the greatest days in American history. . . . The New Orleans steamboats will be whistling in Chicago before very long. . . . It's a fine Christmas present for old Chicago...
...book, "The Golden Day", by Lewis Mumford, which is, among other things, the application of Irving Babbitt's canons of literary criticism to American civilization what Van Wyck Brooks is willing to call the greatest book of American criticism, and a book that will thrill and depress any self-conscious and curious-about-himself American down to the very bottom of his feet...
...plays as yet not in New York but expected during the vacation those showing greatest promise are: Mozart by and with Sacha Guitry and Yvonne Printenups; and Peggy by Rogers-Hart Fields, and with Helen Ford, Luin McConnell, and Betty Starbuck. This latter combination rivals all others in the musical comedy line...
...would be interesting to compare this man of universal interests to another man of only slightly loess universal genius Goethe. Here also was one who beside being one of the greatest if not the supreme poet of one era, was a scientist of note, and the prime minister of a principality. Indeed there seems o be a similarity between these two men of which not the least evidence is in the sincere admiration of the poet for the painter...
...Richmond Eberhardt, his collaborator ever since he entered seriously upon a musical career, he wrote an Indian opera Shanewis, the only native creation to see two seasons at the Metropolitan (1918, 1919). The Witch of Salem marks an interesting variation in subject matter. It will probably rank as his greatest work to date...