Word: tiniest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Third was the two-coach procession of learned Sankey, the Lord High Chancellor, who outranks the Prime Minister. Fourth was the procession of the tiniest London Lord Mayor in history, Sir Stephen Killik perched froglike on a seat in the Lord Mayor's Coach especially heightened so that he could be seen...
...feature of the Post's contest which it mentioned only in the tiniest type, was the contestant's obligation to send 10? with every group of six pictures, or $1 for the whole contest. For each dime he would receive a print of one of the drawings, "suitable for framing." Since some 40,000 started the contest and 30,000 saw it to a finish, the 10? rule netted the Post $33,000-a little more than double the sum paid out in prizes. That, however, did not make the contest a direct moneymaker. The Post spent...
Terror-ridden Cuba found its tiniest terrorist last week when one Rafael Tocoronte, 13, was caught heaving a bomb in midtown Havana. To police he bragged that he had been planting bombs for several years, "to help the cause." He proved it by producing a score of bombs freshly made in his home. The judge of one of the "urgency courts" President Carlos Mendieta has instituted to fight the Terror sentenced Moppet Rafael to six years in the juvenile penitentiary...
...free press is not free to close its columns to anything, even to denials of freedom. Chesterton never did anything better. One is reminded of his statement that a free-thinker is the most unfree thinker in the world, because he is not free to think seriously of the tiniest miracle...
...Clarence Mackay asked him to conduct the Philharmonic in 1926. And when he cabled that he would come, great was the trepidation among the musicians. He was a musical god, they had heard, a despot, a devil. He used no score even at rehearsal but he could detect the tiniest flaws. Once in Milan he had smashed an offending violin and a splinter flew up, hit the player in one eye. Toscanini's fabulous memory gave him his first chance to conduct. He had studied to be a 'cellist at the Parma Conservatory. As a 'cellist...