Word: least
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best at least the best known pianist is a Gentile-Ignace Paderewski...
...these three, the last and least, Indiana's Robinson, has participated most obscurely in governing the U. S., until last fortnight. Then, thinking he saw a chance to drag the Democratic Party into the Oil Scandal, he stood up in the Senate and falsely imputed a relation with Oilman Sinclair to Governor Smith of New York. "Birds of a feather!" he jibed. Democrats soon stuffed Indiana's own jailbirds and Klan feathers down Senator Robinson's throat (TIME, April...
Political Angle. No man in Chicago counts himself a politician of any repute until he has been pineappled or at least threatened. And no man is at present more entangled in Chicago politics than Senator Deneen. He is leader of the Republican faction that is fighting to oust the incumbent administration of Mayor Thompson, State's Attorney Crowe, Governor Len Small, plus Frank L. Smith who is again running for the seat in the U. S. Senate in which he was not permitted to sit. The "better element" and all the Chicago newspapers (except the two Hearst papers...
...year 1582 a William Shakespeare married an Anne Hathaway. Little is known of the progress of their union, but of their progeny, one fact is certain: Mrs. Shakespeare gave birth to twins. Doubtless this fact, if it did not inspire, at least aided the playwright in accurately describing the behavior of twins as he did in Twelfth Night, as he did again in The Comedy of Errors...
...same inheritance, developed from the same egg, the insanity is a proof of an inherited emotional instability that would have manifested itself at the same time whether the twins were together or apart. Others claim the mental disease to be the result of environment and association; insist at least that identical twins would not go simultaneously mad or have the same type of insanity if they had not been brought up together. This, in extreme form, is the field of the present investigation...