Word: handsomest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minnesota's Farmer-Laborite (running on the Republican ticket) Henrik Shipstead is defeated (by Democratic Attorney John E. Regan, or by onetime Governor Elmer Austin Benson), the Senate loses one of its handsomest nonentities...
Driving through London last week His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, handsomest member of the Royal Family, came dutifully to a halt in front of a rope stretched across a street. From it hung a sign which in the past fortnight has become a familiar sight in many parts of the city: "DANGER-UNEXPLODED BOMB...
...kidnapped seven years ago, ransomed for $60,000. The Boettcher family put up $193,000, enabled Denver's Board of Education to get a PWA grant and build a $384,000 school. Designed in pale green concrete and glass by famed Architect Burnham Hoyt, it was easily the handsomest and best-equipped school for crippled children...
...drowsy day in 1895 Catherine Evans, a farm girl from Dalton, Ga., journeyed back into the hills to visit a cousin. There she saw a pair of family-heirloom "candlewick" bedspreads, the handsomest bedspreads she had seen in all her born days. Back she went to Dalton. learned to make them herself. Soon hardly a wedding anywhere around was complete unless the bride got one of Catherine Evans' bedspreads...
...shooed 50 high-school girls away from the stage door. The Chicago Civic Opera House was jammed with about 300 men, 2,700 women, all of whom had bought their tickets at least a month before. They had come to hear a baritone, Nelson Eddy, who is certainly the handsomest man on the U. S. concert stage and, with radio and cinema earnings, probably the best paid (a reported $600.000 a year...