Word: merest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with all that $3,000,000 can buy: Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, 600 extras and eye-crashing Technicolor, mixed by the lavish, lily-gilding hand of Cecil B. DeMille. The result may not be quite Old Testament, but it is Bible story shrewdly blended with sex, spectacle, and the merest suggestion of social comment to keep it abreast of current Hollywood trends. It is unlikely to tarnish Producer-Director DeMille's reputation for consistently making (as well as spending) more money on pictures than anybody else...
With just the merest hint of deviltry in his roving eye, Vag waited for the big event of the day at Braves Field. It was Reading Period, but so what! Encased in his now rather shoddy seersucker jacket, with a Chesterfield protruding not at all jauntily from his mouth, he waited while a man in a double-breasted suit walked onto the field. Today, of all things foolish, they were going to raffle off a '47 Packard, and what was more silly, he was waiting around on the hope that he would win it. Of course he never won anything...
Hardest hit by the calamity were people who, finding their taps supplied only the merest trickle, left the faucet open only to be inundated when Boston water was diverted into Cambridge. Or maybe it was the people who lived downstairs from them...
...Some Churchillian epithets: "Whipped jackal . . . tattered lackey . . . merest utensil . . . Italian flop." * No kin to the fame Strong Boy of Boston
After only the merest taste of victory last weekend, Coach Floyd Stahl's Crimson quintet went down to their eighth defeat of the campaign 47 to 34 Wednesday as they met a polished group of ball-handlers at Melville Motor Torpedo Boat S.T.C...