Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Comrade Kaganovich, hardest-boiled protege of the hard-boiled Dictator, was appointed Commissar for Transport, the most broken-down part of Russia's economic structure was her railways. For years Comrade Stalin had been having railwaymen shot after every wreck, ignoring their pleas that they desperately needed new equipment...
...winter's $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap. Last week Discovery's job was the inaugural running of the Butler Handicap, at the Empire City track in Yonkers, N. Y., oldtime project of the late Grocery Tycoon James Butler. Many racegoers thought it would prove Discovery's hardest test so far, because this time he was giving weight not only to King Saxon (8 Ib.) but also to Top Row (16 Ib.), holder of the world's record for 1-1/16 mile, and because the Butler racetrack has sharp turns that King Saxon likes. For nearly...
...people who cheer loudest when you succeed are those who throw pop bottles the hardest when you fail. . . . Loud cheers make heroes. Pop bottles make martyrs. ... I knew an old priest once. His hair was white, his face shone. ... I am listed as a famous home-runner, yet beside that obscure priest, who was so good and so wise, I never got to first base...
...sour grapes. Others indicate a rather pathetic misunderstanding of the situation. It is to these last, some of whom may be among your readers, that I write. Of all the degrees given at Oglethorpe University, or by any other high-class college or university, the ones which require the hardest toil, the most strenuous application and the highest attainment, are the honorary degrees. . . . The conception underlying the conferring of honorary degrees is that the greatest university on earth is not Oxford nor Harvard nor Oglethorpe but the University of Life itself, sometimes called the University of Hard Knocks, sometimes...
...Emancipator, the Abraham Lincoln of 350,000,000 souls, Sir Sam cannot quite see. Therefore he absolutely demanded and got the Foreign Office as a minimum reward, ousting Sir John Simon, who was made Home Secretary last week, thus ousting into limbo Sir John Gilmour. one of the hardest-working, least appreciated Home Secretaries in many a year...