Word: least
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...form of competition? In order to prevent the stigma of "office-seeker" from being attached to any individual, the contestants should be named by the nominating committee, with the possibility of adding names by petition as is now the custom. This system could be successfully applied at least to the offices of class poet and class odist. The poems submitted by these men should be voted on as to their merit but should not be submitted anonymously so that there might be some room left for choices in personality or if two men have written equally good compositions a certain...
Boston is at it again. A few years ago a board of burly policemen "laboriously read and censured" Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy." This expedition won the ancient city a renewal of its already venerable fame. But it seems this was not sufficient, or at least the action was not rabid enough. This time "Candide", Voltaire's great philosophical novel has been seized by the Collector of the Port. The immortal work has been arraigned on the charge of "obscenity and obscurity." (Of course, it will surprise no one that M. Voltaire has been found obscure by such gentry...
Pending the full blaze of the Golden Jubilee, retrospective minds returned to years between the first spark of Edisonian genius and the visible glow of its social application. Between laboratory and layman stand innumerable middlemen, not the least important of whom are usually a few bankers. Inventor Edison at 35 was by no means financially ignorant. He understood that money, though social rather than "natural," is a force not unlike electricity, with sources and laws of its own. A respecter of such forces, he turned to financial experts in 1882, when it was time to incorporate the first Edison Electric...
...others in Edisonizing the U. S. For a broad view, however, of the background against which electric light was developed in the U. S., none of them is more typical or important than the alert little old-school gentleman who, on his 82nd birthday last month, was not the least perturbed about receiving congratulations at one moment, entertaining grandchildren the next and sitting for the portrait (see front cover) in between...
...famed dancer's good husband, a flaming tabloid's good newsgatherer, can both be combined in one person. But that person cannot be a good gardener too. At least so learned David Vivian Bath last week. So learned also New York's Daily Mirror. This is how they found...