Word: humblest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...useless," thundered Prime Minister Mussolini, celebrating on the morrow the seventh anniversary of the march on Rome, "and it may be even dangerous to attempt to disturb this divine harmony which runs from the King and from the heir to the Throne to the last peasant in our humblest village...
...good character, felled the trees, floated them down the river to Yamada. For nine years every step of the construction from the seasoning of the lumber, the hewing of the beams to the final sweeping of the completed temple followed the fixed unvarying ritual. Every workman, from the humblest coolie to the supervising priest, had to bathe and pray daily, wear a spotless white jacket and shirt each morning...
There was a time before the glories of modern printing had penetrated to the lives of even the humblest inhabitants, when each man wrote in his own hand a short autobiography to be filed with others in his class. Like other matters in and around Cambridge when Harvard had an enrolment of five hundred or thereabouts, there was more of the personal touch, more perhaps of humanism than is contained in modern Albums. And the man who had slowly developed from the inside could leave a record fully as illuminating to posterity as he who found his personality by contact...
...humblest patchwork
While despatches went round the world telling of the pleurisy which had prostrated the King of England, one of his humblest Subjects, Prizefighter Tom Heeney, was informed by a Manhattan physician that he had been walking around for a week with a case of pneumonia...