Word: greatests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Stover was last man for Skull and Bones, and thereby entered his charmed existence as the greatest Senior under the elms; there were only the dud explosions of the professional reformers or the envious non-quites to cry down an antique custom. Conditions charged in the next couple of decades, but yet it fell to the Junior Fraternities to take the blame. Tap Day might be a deadly twenty-four hours, but it came in the spring, when one reads of Blue teams only on page ten; the lesser elections blossom perversely in the antumn, and that...
...great, venerable, famed. Proudly the small spectacled Tenno, whom Japanese adore as the Son of Heaven, surveyed the long, grim, double file of his grey war boats. This was his day of might! With the plain wooden paddle which is his simple sceptre, Emperor Hirohito now rules the third greatest naval power in the world...
...Chicago, the Chicago Bears beat the Chicago Cardinals 34-0 in a professional football game. Playing for the Cardinals was Jim Thorpe, famed Indian of Carlisle, once the "greatest all-around athlete and the greatest football player who ever lived," who played baseball for the Giants, won the Olympic pentathlon in 1912, and is now 44. He played badly and was removed from the game...
...adds interest to Jacob Wassermann's short story about the Baron (John Gilbert) who has the face of an archangel, the soul of a devil, and a lust for the fiancee (Eva Von Berne) of his friend. In an effort to live up to his reputation as the greatest lover in Hollywood, John Gilbert makes his eyes pop out and his chest heave in a way that little furthers his ambition to be also its greatest actor...
Last week a new Commentary on the Holy Scripture, published in England under the direction of Dr. Charles Gore, onetime Bishop of Oxford and famed as perhaps the greatest theologian in the Church of England, came out flatly in favor of Elhanan...