Word: least
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...however, at least temporarily, restrained from making a stage appearance by the City Council of Vienna which delayed and temporized when besought to issue a license by her manager. Finally, lest the powers of darkness should triumph, a deputation of rival Christian Socialists waited upon their great but dour leader, Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, Chancellor of Austria, and besought him to "prevent the nude, brazen-faced and heathen dances of Fraeulein Josephine Baker from taking place anywhere in Austria." Chancellor Seipel, perhaps reliably informed that Miss Baker always wears some article of adornment when she dances, sternly cut short a Deputy...
...most spectacular art auction ever held in the U. S. The American Galleries, nonetheless, is still ahead; its total business averages about $6,000,000 a year. When the two galleries are merged, they will accept bids which aggregate about $9,000,000 every year; thus surpassing, financially at least, famed Christie's, in London, which has, during the last 150 years, housed more beautiful paintings than the Louvre...
Liniment, railroad fare, telegrams, spiked shoes, coaches' salaries were so costly that every other sport showed a deficit. Crew cost Yale the most, $65,618; the Gun Club, least expensive, was a $651 luxury. Visiting teams pocketed a third of the huge football monies. The rest went toward promoting adequate padding and feed for Yale athletes, toward athletic education, toward that potent plank in every college sales talk, "Athletics...
...annoyed them when Sculptor Caoudal spread a true scandal about Fanny, saying that she was the nakedest and not the least contaminated of all the artists' models in Paris; but they were delighted when Fanny leaped upon this villain and clawed the collar off his neck. At the end, when Fanny slipped off to the country with her pure but honest well-beloved, interest waned. Bostonians had come to see Mary Garden do great and voluptuous acts of rage and excitement; satisfied in this desire, they decided that she had tilted a cracked mirror so that its faulty images...
...through Texas cries went up: "Remember the Alamo." But Texans were not given to cries without action. To get Santa Anna, they chose a commander named Sam Houston, 6 ft., 3 in. in his moccasins, of whom President Andrew Jackson said: "Thank God, there is one man at least in Texas who was made by the Almighty and not by a tailor."* Commander Houston wasted no time in routing the Mexicans at the battle of San Jacinto and capturing General Santa Anna...