Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chaste and simple statement: "This is my real story. I have authorized its publication," this series of articles will provide the youth of America with a mark to shoot at beside which George Washington's veracity will pale into insignificance. Yet the miracle of it is not that this greatest American of our day has finally received full recognition, but that this homely material could inspire in a Yale halfback such depths of lyric emotion...
...leaves them--dry bones. The scholar goes through the same procedure, but before he quits the game, he breathes into his bones the breath of life, and from the dust of ages emerges a living idea. The scholar has connected them with life, and that vital connection marks the greatest difference between scholarship and pedantry...
...Metropolitan the greatest opera house in the world...
Carmela Ponselle, a mezzo-soprano whose vaudeville career was cut short when a critic discovered that her sister Rosa, with whom she was training in the two-a-day, had "the greatest dramatic-soprano voice in the world...
Nikolai Evreinov, author of "Mr Paraclete", this year's Dramatic Club production, is, according to Mr. Hale, one of the greatest living Russian playwrights. "'Mr. Paraclete' was written," the Boston dramatic critic said, "at the apex of this Russian author's career...