Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Randolph Hearst, famed publisher: "My newspapers announced that the young pupils of Swimming Master David Gardella of Palm Beach had participated in one of the most successful water carnivals in the history of that resort. Miss Mary Pierrepont scored the greatest number of points (19). But my young son, Randolph A. Hearst was second (14½). Other participants were Miss Ella Pillsbury, Miss Beatrice Breese, Master Charles Pillsbury, Master Jack Pierrepont. Said my New York American: 'Not the least interesting event was the pie-eating contest, which was won by Randolph A. Hearst, with Miss Beatrice Breese second...
OUTWARD BOUND ? The hereafter dealt with in the creepy, suspensive style of the mystery play, with a haunting voyage that proves that the last Cook's tour is the greatest...
...America is rapidly becoming the worst crime center of the world. It has already the greatest number of divorce cases. The only difference between a Turk and an American is that the former has his wives as a team and the latter has his as a tandem. $3,000,000,000 is annually stolen in the United States, and 15,000 deaths occur every year through murders and homicides. One of the most discouraging facts is that the great majority of the most desperate criminals are under 22 years old. This is all a result of animal philosophy...
...greatest respect for Bob Ingersoll," he continued, "and use to go and hear him. I admired him as a man whose strength of conviction would not permit him to remain in a church with whose policies he was not strictly in accord. But these two men remain in parishes which were built to uphold certain doctrines, and deliberately tear them down...
...scoundrel, and yet be very successful with the lancet. But a minister is in everybody's eyes, and must therefore be pure in every respect. If he falls once, his career is gone. And this realization that success lies in your char- acter is one of the greatest joys of a minister's life...