Word: least
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Council has just tabled a resolution to give effect to the mandate of the people as expressed at the polls. In Massachusetts, Blue Laws have always been in style, and the country members of the legislature have until this year succeeded in upholding the morals of the cities at least one day a week. But on November 6, by means of an initiative petition, the people of the state were at last able to declare their will. And now, when the Commonwealth permits the city of Boston to decide for itself whether its people shall debauch the Sabbath...
...carried along semi-officially through the season is particularly large in this sport, which alone among the five major athletic activities offers no second team places for these men. If circumstances prevent the formation of a Second Track Team, the men who would be eligible for it merit at least an opportunity to earn a place on a class team, and their number is great enough to make a strong nucleus for such organizations...
...every one, from the Head of the Pharmacists down: and in the chaos, the pirates have begun to peach on one another. There may be some names in this to be hung in a smaller, local room beside the vast public gallery dedicated to Fall-Doheny-Sinclair. At least the Democrats are entitled to hold that smile, and perhaps to scribble Governor Square down under a sub-head in their long list of Horrible Examples...
...dragged into the mess. He has only recently been named Minister of Agriculture, and jealous enemies were quick to charge that because a newspaper in which he is largely interested, Le Quotidien, had made a joint circulation drive with La Gazette du Franc, he must have been at least privy to the swindle. Incomplete investigation seemed to show that this slur upon the Cognac Tycoon was baseless...
Then suddenly she was confronted, not by a "piece of nonsense" but by an actress whose virtue was a British household word -a thoroughly wicked woman, grist to the Arlenesque mill. This crafty villainess bewitches the carthorse into cad, and breaks Lily Christine's heart. Not the least of the heroine's anguish is over a respectable middle-class boyfriend whom she has unwittingly involved in the scandal. And just as the plot is thickening pleasantly, Lily Christine's creator pitches her under the wheels of a motor-lorry...