Word: livest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chief speaker at the service was moose-tall Rev. Charles Oscar Johnson of St. Louis, new president of the Alliance and onetime president (1932-33) of the Northern Baptists. Johnson, a genial, 260-lb. ex-farm boy from east Tennessee, runs one of the livest and most prosperous churches in St. Louis, where he has a reputation for knowing how to take care of himself in a fight without losing his enormous personal popularity. A humble man. he likes to be called Oscar. "I don't like anything," he once said, "that is going to separate me from...
...grinned, "What's going on around here, a World Series?" He knew the answer, and so did nearly everybody else in Philadelphia: the team that had been moribund for 28 years,* and in eighth place in the National League for seven out of eight years, was suddenly the livest thing in baseball...
...Glass Key (Paramount) is the best melodrama since The Maltese Falcon (TIME, Oct. 20, 1941), also based on a Dashiell Hammett shocker. It also clears up any lingering doubts about the status of 29-year-old Alan Ladd. He is the livest thing to turn up in this sort of scarehead since James Cagney in The Public Enemy...
Coal production has actually slumped its war demand increased. Since most Britons fear they may go cold next winter, the coal problem is the livest issue in Britain today...