Word: least
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nominee Hoover appeared several times on the back platform and, as an ardent Republican correspondent said, "waved his appreciation with hand and hat. Speak he would not. At Crestline, Ohio, someone cried: "At least you can tell us what you had for breakfast!" The Nominee laughed and mumbled something about "a good Ohio breakfast...
...They were all in a bad way. I told them who I was, and they asked me to free the bellhop, but I refused. There were at least 40 men in the room, and all of them were drunk...
Chinese colleges and universities are now forbidden by the Nationalist Government to require that their students shall attend prayers. Contrarily both faculty and students are required to attend, at least once a week, a memorial service for the late Dr. Sun Yatsen, founder of and omnipresent inspiration the Nationalist Party (TIME, July...
Searching for pictures to make the story intelligible to the majority of its purchasers, the Graphic rooted out no satisfactory portrait of the Carmen who never played with love. So, not in the least disconcerted, its editors found a picture of another opera star, famed Maria Jeritza, showing her face in an expression of unbridled invitation. The editors published this photograph with the story about Margerita Sylva; there was no caption printed under it; it was not stated that it represented Margerita Sylva. The editors were confident that few Graphic readers would recognize Jeritza, even though similar huge pictures...
...excursions into the limelight. Being sued for $100,000 by Elizabeth Hines, who thought she deserved the position of leading lady in Show Boat, Mr. Ziegfeld promised his daughter a roadster if he won the case. An arbitration board awarded Elizabeth Hines $12,000 and Ziggy, counting this at least a Pyrrhic victory, bought his little girl the car that he had posted. But, little Patricia Ziegfeld will be unable to drive her roadster because she is only eleven...