Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Mr. Freed, who brings today's hits, yesterday's happiness and tomorrow's hopes to millions on his world-famous radio show, violated a Massachusetts anti-anarchy law. A few women and children, about 20 in all, were stabbed and beaten following a performance by some of the greatest stars of '58, but these women and children were of course the sacrifice the few must pay in order to ensure the welfare of the many, us. If some Judge thinks that so small a sacrifice constitutes anarchy, he should go to Russia and see what it is like there...
...visit of rock 'n roll artists under the wing of Mr. Freed was one of the greatest nights of all spring, even if the law doesn't think so. Mr. Freed defends clean thoughts and forthright action, is a champion of keen teens throughout the land, and knows what is good for today's youth and what is not. Just where do you think those kids would have been if they hadn't been rocking at Mr. Freed's show? Out hanging on street corners thinking unclean thoughts, etc., that's where...
...Leavitt is the kind of promoter who gives U.S. promoters a bad name. Stocky, brash and 53, Leo blew into Australia proclaiming: "I am the world's greatest promoter." Representing Western Promotions of San Francisco, he promptly made headlines by offering Aussie Miler Herb Elliott a fantastic $250,000 to turn pro. Elliott considered for five weeks, then refused. Leavitt turned truculent. He hinted darkly that he had a tape of a telephone conversation with Miler Elliott that could ruin his amateur standing. Trumpeted Leavitt: "I have one question to ask Elliott. If he doesn't give...
...picnic, led a lion on a leash, drank beer at "pop" concerts, and once, during Lent, donned sackcloth and scrubbed the steps of Boston's Church of the Advent. Meanwhile she kept buying pictures, and putting her servants on short rations so that she could do it. Her greatest caprice, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, is a Venetian palazzo on The Fenway in the midst of Boston, containing some of the world's best pictures (among them Titian's Rape of Europa...
...Norman stoutly affirms that one great man was a hero to his valet, but wryly suggests that he had to be a bit of a hero himself. From bath to bedtime (often a cup of "real" turtle soup at 2 or 3 a.m. ) he had to look after the greatest package of will power and energy in the Western world. Also, he had to clean paint brushes and look after the remarkable Churchill wardrobe. In the uniform department, it was one of the most splendid seen in Europe since the fall of the Bastille. For the rest. Churchill hated...