Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great chords, low symphony of Das Rhemgold.Wagner tensed-wept in ecstasy as nothing could check storms of frenzied applause. . . . One midnight, seven years later, King Ludwig rode on a black horse alone to Wahnfried, bowed in a garden over the tomb of one of the world's greatest dramatic composers...
...north and abroad for school, clothes, weddings. They have a sporty little polo club, foxhunting, golf. You will see the vast Reynolds estate, like an English baronial holding with its tenant church and tenant school. And then you will hear of the finest roads in the U. S., the greatest educational strides in the South. All is orderly, vigorous, progressive. Before you leave town you will know that you have visited one of the country's model communities. You will understand why a percipient chain-making publisher strode so far from his home state to attach its leading newspaper...
...failed to foresee what is now happening? Why did we not halt under the shells and convoke a board meeting of profiteers to decide the question whether it would allow us to continue in defense of the greatest conquest in history? Must the myth of German reparations lead up to American cash collections...
...singers, church soloists, all stood nattily attired in white trousers and blue coats, sang. The occasion was the Eisteddfod held last week at Swansea, Wales. The mongrel gathering of choristers was the Orpheus male chorus of Cleveland, Ohio, which won first prize from ten other competitors, was declared the greatest male chorus in the world...
...stories about his hard-pressed boyhood-how he cut off a cat's tail to get his first paintbrush-are somewhat fanciful. He was poor. He was never indigent. From the time that he left grammar school he devoted himself furiously to the studies that made him the greatest of U. S. landscape painters. In his studios in Montclair, N. J., in Washington Square, he worked stripped to the waist, with all windows closed, sweat pouring from his body. His eyes blazed under the shock of hair that kept falling over his forehead; he brushed it back with...