Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What I wish to make clear to you tonight is that this desire for education is making the Labor Party the greatest potential power in England...
...disheartening to discover that this psychology, which has proved true in the situations of undramatized life has been proved inapplicable to the emotions of the stage. The experience of the greatest actors has shown that really sincere emotion has failed to produce a convincing portrayal on the stage. After this evidence it appears logically necessary, in spite of the disappointment to those who believe in progress through the ages to revert to Diderot's paradoxical dogma that art is not nature but nature intensified and sublimated through the medium of the imagination. If our actors can not feel and portray...
...bribe elevator boys to warn them of the Big Chief's approach. Occasionally, however, when they were forced to lavatories for their smoke, they would refer unpleasantly to the Mohican Chain Stores, and among younger men the impression got about that Frank A. Munsey was the world's greatest grocery man, and a newspaper man only by grace of tin cans. Had they never heard the big story, as romantic and as true a tale as was ever told...
...Think of the possibilities involved in a chain of 500 newspapers under a single control! Such a faculty could be so maintained as no college could support; the greatest authors, artists, engineers, essayists and statesmen could write with authority on every question of importance, each of 500 papers getting the benefit of these great minds, while maintaining its individuality on purely local matters...
...News eyed one another: "How much longer do we work for the Congregational Church?" A few blocks down the Loop, John J. Mitchell, able Chicago banker had been spending a large part of his working days for two months deciding how best to rid himself of one of the greatest evening newspapers in the world. To the leather-faces and to himself Banker Mitchell said Merry Christmas as follows...