Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover knows what ought to be done as well as Governor Smith, but he has not had opportunity to demonstrate his political capacity to get it done. Governor Smith has made his demonstration. ... I shall vote for Governor Smith as the man with the greatest demonstrated capacity for political leadership of any I have ever known. . . . He is one of the few great leaders of masses in all history who does not stoop to the tactics of the demagog .... No political leader in the world today, so far as I know-and I know most of them-has as much...
...Nebraska, where the trip started. He it is who is supposed to guard the Progressive mantle of the late, great LaFollette. The Omaha speech on farm relief received a nod of Norris approval. Of the Denver waterpower speech, Senator Norris said: "... Great! . . . We're up against the greatest monopoly, the greatest attempt at control of great resources, ever undertaken since the days of Jesus Christ!" The Omaha World-Herald, daily newspaper of the Brown Derby's advisor, onetime Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock of Nebraska, had a "scoop" to the effect that Senator Norris would jump unequivocally for Smith...
Vincent Richards, famed professional tennis player, in the finals of the U. S. Professional Championship, beat Karel Kozeluh, probably the greatest tennis player in the world, who has not lost a match for eight years. The score was 8-6, 6-3, 0-6, 6-2. Kozeluh took his shoes off after the second set and played in his stocking feet...
...bickering on club piazzas about who should be on the team, some excited women played polo at the Westchester Biltmore. Canadian women and U. S. ones, they were getting ready to play the first match in an international series; after the second match the team that had scored the greatest total number of goals would be declared the winner. The U. S. women won the first match by a score of 5-2. Many spectators started to watch them but a cold wind blew most of them away; only a handful remained at the end to watch Dorothy Hunt-Hogan...
Four other women, Hurd, Fraser, Curtis and Hoyt have won the Amateur three times. All of them succeeded for the third time when they were older than Collett, who was born in 1903 on the day her father, a famous bicycle rider, won his greatest race at the Paris Velodrome. Some of the women at Hot Springs would doubtless have liked to be cool to the daughter, my dear, of a man who used to be a bicycle jockey. Glenna, however, dressed more smartly, had better manners than many a woman whose fathers won their money without...