Word: least
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...centred around War Minister Paul Painleve, who has twice been ousted from the Prime Ministry since the last election and was thought last week to be in danger of losing his seat as a Deputy. In the nick of time there arrived to bolster up his candidacy the two least likely persons imaginable: Dieudonné Costes and Joseph Lebrix, famed 'round-the-world aviators (TIME, April...
Rustication. The Dictator sternly warned party executives that they must not lose contact with the masses, nor ignore or stifle criticism, nor fail to take effective precautions in advance of looming difficulties. Each of them must spend, he said, at least one month per year in the provinces, doing local party work...
...theatre, containing not even a raison d'etre. Such was what some of the critics who attended its initial performance discovered it to be: not quite sure whether the play had been successful in its attempt to understand them, they wrote scornful words which the box-office at least could not fail to find intelligible. Others, undeceived by the play's pretenses, by its dreary smut, by its fairly frequent lapses into complete and trite absurdity, by long stretches in which author e. e. cummings had obviously fallen into the immature fallacy of trying to tell all about...
True, foreign actors are almost always forbidden to act in England. True also that the 60 signers did not have enough influence to cause Mr. Arliss to resign from Equity. Yet it must have been painful for Mr. Arliss to realize that some at least of his ungrateful confreres would go far into the past and repay kindness with spite in the foolish effort to requite their grudge against his country...
Dirigibles are at least five times safer than airplanes, figure insurance underwriters. They charged Major James Fitzmaurice a 23% premium on his life policy when he began his transatlantic crossing, while 5% is all they charge to insure the dirigible R-100 for her round trip crossings from England to the U. S. and back next autumn...