Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sleeps in the cabin's only bed. Son of a Kenosha, Wis. saloon keeper, Don Ameche attended Columbia (Iowa), Marquette, Georgetown and Wisconsin Universities in quick succession. In his vacations he worked. His easiest job was testing the finished product of a mattress factory. His hardest was in a cement factory, loading trucks. When he left college he joined the Jackson Stock Company whose leading man a week later conveniently broke his leg. Substituting for him, Ameche played a year in stock, took a vaudeville tour with the late Texas Guinan, made good on a Chicago radio hour...
When Tilden and Perry left the court an hour later, Perry would have been justified in calling Tilden the "world's best bad player." Tilden had received more applause (before the match started), attracted more attention (by telling a radio announcer to keep quiet), hit the hardest drive (when he needed a point badly in the third set). But of the four sets played he had taken only the third, which the crowd suspected Perry of dropping on purpose. Score...
...Aintree, Four-and-a-half miles over 30 prodigious jumps with hedges so thick that legend says a man can walk on them, the Grand National is the hardest horse race in the world. Winner by three lengths at odds of 100-to-6 last week was Royal Mail, ridden by Evan Williams and owned by Hugh Lloyd Thomas, charge d'affaires at the British Embassy in Paris. Second was James Rank's Cooleen, third, E. W. W. Bailey's Pucka Belle...
Robert G. Rouillard, the attendant at the front door of Widener who daily examines thousands of books for the proper identification marks, says that the hardest part of his job is answering impossible questions. The beginning of the year when curious Freshmen are most abundant, is the most trying period, he says, with such queries as whether one goes up or down in the elevator to get to the fifth floor, and shouldn't the title "Harry Elkins Widener, A.B. 1917" be changed to A.D., typical of what he has to answer...
...nnhilde in Götterdämmerung is the hardest role in all grand opera. She suffers such violent emotions, has to sing such grueling high passages, that few singers have ever made her sound convincing. Wagner used to pace the floor in anguish while writing Brünnhilde's songs. Time and again he asked himself whether any woman alive would be equal to them. Last week's audience again marveled at Kirsten Flagstad's command of the role, the way she used her strong, rich voice to convey Brünnhilde's unutterable happiness...