Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fair way to go all to pieces when I found the true explanation. At once my weird longings came under control. My hair-fetichism has since then been only speculative, though I doubt whether I will ever lose it. The bobbing epidemic afforded me the greatest possible joy, for I was able to see and list in a diary with all attendant circumstances over 500 "first bobbings" without revealing the circumstances at all. The rapidly increasing popularity of the boyish bob gives me almost as much (purely mental) pleasure. I certainly would have become a barber and so permitted myself...
...Dewey. "Greatest U. S. philosopher," exponent of what he calls "empirical naturalism or naturalistic empiricism," Columbia University's Professor John Dewey was voted a life membership in the association, to be conferred on the occasion of his 70th birthday...
...company to an entertainment company is a story in several chapters. In 1919, when Radio Corp. was formed, it was organized solely for the purpose of transmitting wireless messages. At that time Great Britain, long dominant in cable communication, was also the outstanding leader in wireless. World's greatest wireless company was British Marconi (Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd.) which controlled American Marconi (Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. of America), leading U. S. wireless concern. British Marconi was attempting to buy from General Electric Co. exclusive rights in the Alexanderson high-frequency alternator, which first made long-distance...
...Caribbean in a Sikorsky christened Liberty for benefit of press.* Last week Mr. Patterson's cousin-partner, Robert Rutherford McCormick, sent another Sikorsky from Chicago northeastward. This plane was supposed to fly a Great Circle course to Berlin for the glory of the Chicago Tribune ("world's greatest newspaper"), whose aviation editor, 200-lb. Robert Wood, went aboard as a passenger. The McCormick ship was named, oddly, the 'Untin' Bowler, partly because a hunting bowler hat is supposed to protect its wearer if he falls, and partly (said Chicagoans) because of a McCormick family joke about...
Writer-critic Arthur Burton Rascoe is 36. Eight years ago he was literary and dramatic editor of the Chicago Tribune, "World's Greatest Newspaper." Since then other Rascoe jobs have been: associate editor of McCall's, literary editor of the New York Tribune (now Herald Tribune}. editor of Johnson Features, Inc., literary-critic of Arts & Decorations, editor of The Bookman. Last week the latest Rascoe position was announced-associate editor of Plain Talk, red-covered monthly (circulation 25,700) edited by Geoffrey Dell ("G. D.") Eaton in somewhat the manner of Henry Louis Mencken's kraut...