Word: greatests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question of States' rights is not involved here. It is in the Constitution. ... I come from the great Democratic State of South Carolina but . . . the Republican party has given us a great President and I believe he is going down in history as one of the greatest Presidents [because] he stands for civic righteousness and enforcement of the law. ... I want to make this statement fearlessly while I stand on my feet: The great South, the great West and the great women of America* are for Prohibition and we shall have passed from the scene-I hope we shall...
...expect to take a dollar's worth of advertising away from our main competitors, Saturday Evening Post and Colliers. And after all, there is no real competition among magazines. Rivalry, yes-but there is room for all. However, we do expect to make Liberty the greatest magazine in the history of the publishing business...
Lively Ball. Greatest topic of discussion in baseball this year has been the "lively" or "rabbit" official ball. Experts at playing, watching and writing about the game have become convinced it is the cause of a rise of 50 points in batting averages during recent years, the cause of multifarious homeruns, of double-figure scores...
...greatest profits are expected from passenger transport over the tedious distances between U. S. and South American business centres. It still takes weeks to travel between the two continents by watership. Buenos Aires is 18 days from New York, Valparaiso 21 days. Distance has retarded U. S. exploitation and participation in Latin-American enterprises more than have differences in culture and language. National City and Chase National banks of Manhattan have already ventured into South America extensively. Officials of such banks and of industries with similar foreign enterprise will, the aviation companies confidently expect, travel often to South America...
...Fedak, Molnar wrote Carnival. Result: she became a famed legitimate actress and his second wife. Molnar then wrote Heavenly and Earthly Love for a more beautiful woman, Lili Darvas, who, starring in it, became a famed actress also. Enraged, Actress Fedak responded by getting Melchior Lengyel, Hungary's second greatest playwright, to write a play with a role in which she could and did show herself superior to Actress Darvas. Outraged, Molnar wrote Mima and The Glass Slipper, both for Actress Darvas. Upshot: a divorce (Molnar v. Fedak) in which Lili Darvas figured as but one of 142 correspondents. Beautiful...