Word: least
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thoroughly angered, Mr. Reed advanced toward Mr. Robinson, replied: "An insinuation is the last resort of a coward. The Senator has referred to me several times as venerable. I hope I am at least respectable. But the Senator neither here nor elsewhere need take my years into account...
Political atmosphere in Washington can often be gauged, inversely, by the success of Gridiron skits. At last week's horseplay, the least laughter resulted when the scribes tried to joke about Secretary Kellogg's application of the Monroe Doctrine to oil wells...
Thus simply, at the moment of least alarm, tragedy overtook U. S. Army flyers sent to loop a sister continent. Major Herbert A. Dargue and his relief pilot, Lieut. Innis C. Whitehead leaped free and their parachutes saved them. Captain Clinton F. Woolsey fell free too late. Lieut. John W. Benton burned, his cremation starting in midair. South America's good will, which the Army flight had been planned to stimulate, turned to pity, horror...
...drama late in life after writing many novels and short stories. "Pirandellian" is now Italy's equivalent for "Shavian." He came to wide fame only in 1921, with his play Six Characters in Search of an Author. Critics who deny that Professor Pirandello is a philosopher at least agree that his genius for sardonic humor is considerable. If he only toys with mankind's moral and spiritual absurdities, and makes the stage a debating platform for fruitless metaphysics, he at least does it with terse wit and few didactics. Not a few clowns have been "deep" before...
...world as though the Place de l'Opera were around the corner, and Montmartre just up the hill. Nearby is the stupendous Angkor Vat, a temple which few globe circlers see, but which ranks easily with the Taj. Down such must-be-seen or at least must-be-known-about byways Author Kirtland leads, with many a picture quite different from the stereotyped "shots" that disgrace the usual travel book...