Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...think what it liked, the General rushed up to Chautauqua New York, dry mecca. He made a speech He told the Chautauqua that bootlegging rested upon corruption of Government officials, that a major object of his regime was to purify the enforcement personnel. He also stated that his greatest problem was the "market" the unescapable fact that some people wanted. liquor and would pay money...
...time U. S. Ambassador to Italy, was not at the theatre. In bed at his hotel, enveloped in a blue and white dressing-gown, he was writing an ode beneath the electric light. Thus a reporter found him, and elicited these words: "Raquel Meller is the world's greatest living artiste. . . It is hard to analyze just why she is so wonderful for her charm lies in the fact that she is so perfectly graceful in many ways...
...first night, Hugo Hoffmansthal's Welt Theatre Allegorical Pageant Play was given. "One of Reinhardt's greatest triumphs . . .'' representatives of the press dutifully wired to their papers...
...that our pens mingled so much that they got mixed up-we never knew who had written what!" said she. "Ours was not an ordinary union-it was too complete for that. We never left each other for a moment. Our work was our whole life and our greatest pleasure. . . . During the 20 years I have been with him I never once heard him raise his voice. . . . From the first he destined me to succeed him, to go on with his work...
...cricket for 41 years, from the age of 17 until he was 58. Hobbs will, if the fates are disposed, play first-class cricket for many long years to come. To boot, he has this season yet to finish. It seems therefore certain that he will soon become the greatest batsman in the annals of cricket...