Word: keenest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Keenest interest focused on the First Category, since its 16 members will constitute a sort of extraordinary upper house.* One name eclipsed the other 15 in significance?Roberto Farinacci. His role has been the most sinister in Fascist Italy, and the most obscure...
...Keenest Roman interest focused on the man from whom Il Capo snatched the Ministry of Colonies-Signor Luigi Federzoni. Some have called this strong and enigmatic statesman "The Soft Speaker for the Vatican." All know that he has long been the only one of Benito Mussolini's ministers from whom harassed King Vittorio Emanuele III has always been able to secure a countersignature for his royal acts. Constitutionally the pen scratch of His Majesty is of no effect, unless countersigned by a member of the Government. Therefore when Signor Federzoni's ministry was snatched away, last week...
...complete the conquest of China required some 20 months and pitted the Nationalist Generalissimo against the strongest armies and keenest brains which a coalition of Northern War Lords could fling against him in a Death struggle to retain their power. This part of Chiang's saga should be told at epic length, for it was marked by heroic vicissitudes. At one time, sorely defeated, the Generalissimo resigned his command and retired to his native village (TIME, Aug. 22, 1927). Within a few months he had cheered up, married a sister of the surviving widow of Dr. Sun Yatsen...
...Safeguarding." Keenest disappointment was voiced by many Conservatives that the Prime Minister's speech did not announce as an issue "Safeguarding," or in U. S. parlance "Protective Tariff...
...Smith before his elevation, and since "Ephesian," when pronounced, sounds like " 'F. E.' sian," it was supposed for a time that the noble Earl had himself penned these two books, which seem the product of a brain almost, if not quite as keen, as his: "the keenest legal brain in England...