Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...representatives will be Minister MacMurray and Silas Strawn, famed Chicago lawyer, who was once very nearly appointed Attorney General by President Coolidge. On these two will rest the greatest burden of steering a middle course. For they will have U. S. citizens to protect, and the facts of the Chinese situation to face as well as the demands of the powers who would like a great number of desirable things which probably are not obtainable...
Edwin Franko Goldman, conductor of the famed Goldman Band, had offered prizes-one silver, two bronze medals-to go to the persons who recognized the greatest number of tunes from the excerpts which his celebrated bandsmen would deliver. Because it is impossible to print music in the compressed pages of a newsmagazine, readers cannot play the game as Goldman's listeners played it. But they can try it in reverse order. Reading the name of the selections played by Mr. Goldman, they can see if they are able to whistle...
...American Indians, on the other hand, are responsible for such pieces as Cherokee, Sunapee, Sagamore, Eagle Eyes. Concerts given by his band in Manhattan parks and stadia have been remarkable for the perfect orderliness of the audiences. His organization has been called, "A Symphony Orchestra in Brass", "The Greatest Band in the World...
...Where was the resistless speed? Where the champion's iron nerves? Even that poker face was wan now, as Miss McKane, playing as if the sub-subconscious conviction of victory, took the first set, 6-3. Twenty-four minutes later the match was over. Miss Wills, in the greatest tennis exhibition of her life, ran out a love set, allowed only two games in the third. When the final point was scored, she yielded for the first time in her career to the impulse of savage exultation that makes the Indian prance, the schoolboy yowl, the boxer shake...
...honest Colonel. (P. 31, col. 3.) The world's greatest living artiste...