Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sportive pomposity amuses Mr. Boyd enormously. Most of the time it amuses the reader. His greatest delight and accomplishment is punning in phrases, giving a clever twist to another's epigram, or setting, in the midst of an immaculate sentence, some rich gem of slang. Occasionally his erudition waxes into windy verbosity, but not for long. Soon there will come a forthright shaft of sarcasm, or a quotation, such as Yeats' remark about George Moore: "What a pity Moore never had a love affair with a lady-always with women of his own class...
...must to all men, Death came to Leon Bakst, famed Russian: stage-designer, painter. He died, after a long illness, in Paris where he had spent the last 18 years of his life. While adept in formal painting, he won his greatest fame with his scenic and costume designs for many brilliant ballets produced in France, Russia, England...
...Adams has a rival. Absolute as was her Peter Pan-American sway, its end is near. Betty Bronson, obscure child of cinema chance, whom Barrie picked for the part from a photograph, will be the Peter the present and succeeding generations of U. S. childhood will cherish. From the greatest cavern of the city auditorium to the stuffy second-floor hall of the farm village Miss Bronson will scatter her gospel. She will scatter it through the medium of an uncannily adapted personality blended into a great picture that is at once beautiful, wise and faithful to its great tradition...
THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED -The Italian grape-grower of California who summons by mail a wife to grace his rural opulence. But he had white hair, while his hired man was young and handsome. Pauline Lord obliges with the greatest performance of the season...
Died. Martin H. Glynn, 53, one-time Governor of New York; in Albany, after a long illness. Famed for his eloquence, he made his greatest speech before the 1916 Democratic Convention which renominated Wilson...