Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old Oilman Baker had fulfilled a lifelong ambition: to make his fortune and then go for a good long sail. With the same daring and dynamic enthusiasm that characterized his younger brother, the late, great Hobart ("Hobey") Baker, who has been immortalized since his Wartime death as the greatest U. S. college hockey player of all time. Skipper Baker, accompanied by two sons and a crew of three, had just completed a 30,000-mile cruise from Hong Kong...
...every opera house in Germany until I found her at Leipzig. She came up and sang to me in Berlin. After she had sung ten bars it was quite clear that here was the most promising singer of her type since Destinn. She ought to be one day the greatest Brünnhilde and Isolde of her generation...
...First National-Warner Bros.). Of old-time Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks' achievements, perhaps the greatest was his Puckish, jaunty, devil-may-care role of Robin Hood (1922). Replacing Douglas Fairbanks in Robin's bounding buskins is as much of a he-man's job as pinchhitting for Babe Ruth. In the current cinema lithe, lanky Errol Flynn hits no home run. but scores a clean two-bagger standing up. Lacking Fairbanks' punch and ken. he has Robin's form and flair down pat. If prankish Actor Fairbanks was a man's Robin Hood, handsome, romantic...
...Manhattan last week twelve people sat in a small office in the National Broadcasting Co. building and witnessed the first television book review in the U. S. The book was Sidney A. Spencer's The Greatest Show on Earth, a collection of photographs illustrating economic laws; the reviewer was baldish, bearded Critic Ernest Boyd. In a milky, translucent square of light in the television receiving apparatus, the audience could make out the figure of Critic Boyd, his features hidden in shadows, as he faced some indistinguishable framed object on the studio wall and began his review by exclaiming nervously...
...Author Crow became a Confucian becomes clearer after reading Master Kung, his biography of Confucius. What attracted him to Confucius was not the official perfectionist version of China's greatest historical figure. He became a convert because Confucius seemed the perfect personification of the Golden Mean-a moralist without asceticism, a reformer without fanaticism, a conservative without bigotry, a scholar without pedantry, a rugged individualist with a social conscience-but for all that, a man with such human foibles as touchiness and misogyny...