Word: sharpest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evident that he had not. On the other hand neither the Liberals nor the Conservatives wanted to bring down the Labor Government on the unemployment issue last week, so amid much grumbling the House voted a resolution enabling Mr. Thomas to go ahead with his plans. Sharpest criticism came from burly James Maxton, leader of the extreme Left Laborite faction. After flaying the Government for "compromising with Capitalism" and not daring to seek the straight Socialist solution of nationalizing industry, he roared: "Some say that Labor will run the Government for 20 years. God knows, at the rate...
...artist that Mr. Wells wishes to be known. Student of chemistry, physics, biology, his scientific mind repeatedly comes to the rescue of emotions that have been too quick to accept a new theory. Honest, he is not afraid to satirize opinions he himself has passionately held. His wit is sharpest when he is in a temper (in person or in print), but he is a good listener and efficient host-unusual virtues for a man of genius. At 62, his intellectual vitality is almost equalled by his physical energy-his father was a professional cricketer...
...quickest, sharpest G. 0. P. answer to Nominee Smith's farmstorming tour was emitted by Senator George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire, official Hooverizer of the East. Quoth he: "The ploughboy of the Eastern world goes West in a $1,000,000 special train to carry relief to the harassed farmers of that section. His remedy consists of a plea to give him a chance. His promise consists in a pledge to appoint a commission to tell him what...
...then there is Frank Richardson Kent, perhaps the sharpest of them all. Small, compact, quick, incurably enthusiastic and good-humored, he knows the politicians as few of them know themselves. Exposing their humbuggery, dishonesty, pomposity, spells FUN to him. He probably got his taste for political writing from his uncle, Frank A. Richardson, who from the Civil War until 1910 was Washington correspondent for the Baltimore Sun, in which Pundit Kent's "Great Game of Politics" (column) appears daily and of which he is vice president. He delineates the technology of politics. He has done a history...
...centre of influence is supposed to be in Colorado, where he long practiced medicine and where, at Pueblo, he founded a hospital. The choice of a more easterly generalissimo for the G. 0. P. campaign had been expected, since the ticket is California-and-Kansas and since the sharpest competition between the two parties is expected to centre in the urban East. But the Work-for-Chairman movement was many months old. Dr. Work was the first Hooverizer in the Cabinet...