Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then, Mr. Ford is not subject to any rule. He is, judged by results, the greatest business executive in the world; but if any one else attempted to run a business as Mr. Ford does, he would probably wreck it in a month...
Griffith, greatest of directors, has temporarily abandoned the production of vast pageants for the more commercial program picture. This one is adapted from a musical comedy (Poppy) which gave him no master narrative. But he did have the master stage comedian W. C. Fields, and between them they have worked out just about the most amusing comedy that you will recall this year. It is a circus story of the little heroine brought up by the three-card-monte man. There is the rich Peyton Lennox for her later on. She is Carol Dempster and he is Alfred Lunt...
...Bryan had told friends it was to be his greatest speech. It was his last great argument in defense of Modernism which meets halfway with Evolution...
...again a choice between God and Baal; it is also a renewal of the issue in Pilate's court. In that historic trial- the greatest in history-force, impersonated by Pilate, occupied the throne...
...market 4,535,000 bags of coffee. The British drink tea, not coffee, and so were indifferent to the purposes to which the loan funds were to be put. But curiously enough, a considerable pro portion of this 7½% coffee loan was sold in the U. S., the greatest coffee-consuming nation in the world. U. S. investors consequently helped to supply the funds needed to rig the coffee market, and thus had to pay higher prices for their coffee...