Word: uppermost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...command of 15,000 men, he became the sober, strict executive with headquarters and a staff in a deserted building on Pennsylvania Avenue. He directed the B. E. F.'s lobbyists, organized newcomers, arranged for food and shelter, maintained camp order and, above all, kept the Bonus uppermost in his followers' minds. Said he: "We're here for the duration and we're not going to starve. We're going to keep ourselves a simon-pure veterans' organization. If the Bonus is paid it will relieve to a large extent the deplorable economic condition...
Plunging in Hell ass-uppermost...
...Above all things he has recognized that the college is for the students, and whatever occurred the students were always uppermost in his mind. They did not have to be told that, they knew it instinctively, and no cheers have ever echoed on the campus to compare with the 'long yell for Jimmy.' It was the one way they could adequately express their love and devotion...
Lumbering through one act of The Sex Fable is old Mrs. Patrick Campbell, whose appearance on the first night was the occasion for a Chatauquan ovation. Her part, a minor one, is that of an old dowager whose bed is still uppermost in her mind, as it is indeed in the minds of all The Sex Fable's characters...
...long, as funny, as well-turned as his, are surprisingly human, touchingly wise. They serve as an excellent foil to the Shavian epistolary brilliance. And she brought out in the "inhuman" Shaw a side his readers and audiences have not often seen, a side of him which was uppermost when he wrote this last tribute to her memory: "She became a legend in her old age; but of that I have nothing to say; for we did not meet, and, except for a few broken letters, did not write; and she never was old to me. Let those...