Word: loftiest
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...must to all men, death came last week to the youngest, most thoroughgoing dictator in the Western Hemisphere. At La Paz, loftiest capital of the Americas, sad-eyed, 35-year-old President Lieut. Colonel German Busch gave a birthday party in his home for his Japanese brother-in-law, Kovichi Seito. About 5:30 a.m.. a few minutes after the young Dictator had retired to an upper room, his guests heard a shot. They found German Busch with a bullet hole in his temple. Quick surgery failed to save him. Suicide, escape from nervous exhaustion induced by his labors...
Such was H. L. Mencken's first gleeful antic during the first week of the loftiest newspaper job in his career, the editorship of the staid Evening Sun. Thus was Mencken, his pale blue eyes agoggle, his single-breasted suit stretched across his bountiful belly, cocking a snook at his eager literary undertakers. Four years ago his plentiful enemies rushed him to his grave when he ended a nine-year editorship of the American Mercury. Said an American Spectator obituary: "It was most fitting that his last pieces were contributed to an ideologically bankrupt American Mercury and that intellectual...
With the news that a citizen of Salt Lake, Utah, has decided it would be a good thing to settle the flood and drought problem through the production of artificial glaciers, the issue of what to do with snow again comes squarely before the American public, from the loftiest to the lowliest, the wisest to the dullest citizen...
Speaking from the portico of white-pillared Monticello on a hilltop five miles out of Charlottesville, he did not even recall that Thomas Jefferson had been the Founder of the Democratic Party, praised him instead as the champion of freedom. Only the loftiest of allusions to the political present were there in the President's cry of the Founding Fathers: ''Theirs were not the gods of things as they were, but the gods of things as they ought to be. They used new means and new models to build new structures." Nor could any but the rudest...
Another party was led by Walter D. Wood '26, who, accompanied by his brother, Harrison Wood '36, reached the unconquered peak of Mt. Steele. This mountain, which is also in the Yukon region, is 16,400 feet high, making it one of the ten loftiest peaks in North America...