Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Parker Gilbert, Agent General of Reparations, asked him many questions about his work. The ambassadorial host then quoted Barrie, asked: "Shall we join the ladies?" A feature of the evening was the excellent performance put up by Degroot's six-piece orchestra. Degroot is at present the greatest attraction of the Piccadilly Hotel where he plays in the foyer in the afternoon, in the dining room in the evening and in the ballroom at night. Declared the King: "I have never heard such a feast of music in my life"; the Queen, asked by Degroot if she would command...
...political power is in the hands of a Prime Minister and that office appears to be hereditary in the family of His Highness Maharaja Sir Chandra Shumshere Jung, Bahadur Rana, the present Premier. Nepal is famed as the home of the equally famed Gurkha soldiers, said to be the greatest fighters in the world. They helped the British during the Indian mutiny (1857) and again in the World War, when they fought side by side with the Canadian Highlanders and the British Guards. A feature of their equipment was the kukri-a small double-edged, curved knife. According to tradition...
...greatest consumer of newsprint in the world. In 1924, she exported only a few thousand tons, while importing 90% of the Canadian production and 156,000 tons from abroad. Moreover, U. S. print-paper consumption was 50,000 tons above that of 1923 and 28% greater than...
...Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University, of Amy Lowell, poet; in Boston, of a fall from a fifth-floor hotel window. She was married twice, her first husband being a first cousin of the late Theodore Roosevelt. Died. Thomas W. Lawson, 67, frenzied financier, called "the world's greatest speculator"; in Boston, after an operation for diabetes. When 17, he ran away from school, in five years had made-and lost-$60,000 in speculation. He bought copper stock for 75c, sold it for $60 a share, won a new sobriquet, "the Copper King." Died. Oliver Heavisicle, 70, last year...
Probably it started in football. Back in the nineties some chauvinistic Eli declared that his team contained the eleven greatest players, in the country. Then Walter Camp caught the idea, and now his All-American football team is a national institution. But the passion for "all-stars" has spread far beyond the confines of athletics alone; picking the five best this and the ten best that has become the favorite occupation of the intelligentsia. Periodicals are flooded with lists innumerable of the five greatest Americans, the ten greatest novels, and Vanity Fair has even drawn up a list...