Word: remotest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hoover: "I have not the remotest idea, but such a suggestion is grotesque. I wonder, Mr. Chairman, if the committee is not getting down to dealing with a pretty small type of street slander...
...that suave young cosmopolite, born Dik-ran Kuyumjian beside the Bulgarian Danube some 35 years ago, whose activities on the banks of the Thames as Michael Arlen, Anglo-Armenian raconteur, spread his fame to the banks of the Hudson and set a fashion in headgear among remotest upcreek settlements. Simultaneous with his return* to the U. S., Michael Arlen's agents last week announced that his novel and play of 1924-25, The Green Hat, are to have a third incarnation, as cinema, perhaps with Norma Talmadge. More directly responsible for Mr. Arlen's arrival...
Woman's Day. It was Woman's Day," a day observed throughout the Soviet Union, even in its remotest province, Samarkand. The local women have long since been told by Communist zealots to take off their pirandja (veil) and some of them have long since done so. But last week 600 emancipated women paraded Samarkand in facial nakedness...
...this Universe-City I find every type of mind and character that could be herded from the remotest ends of the earth, and the supreme purpose of every man seems to be to make a noise in his own peculiar way. I have always been under the impression, my dear Usbek, that education meant preparation, taken in its broadest sense. But here it seems to mean accomplishment, such as that is understood. These Satellites all want to draw the eyes of their fellows upon themselves, and if they fall, they think their education is a failure. They crave applause...
...Willy Hellspach, 48, former professor of Applied Psychology, now Staatspresident (President and Premier combined) of the Baden Republic (a semi-autonomous German State), is the Democratic nominee. He has not the remotest chance of election...