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Word: craftiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...basis of Cervantes' Don Quixote, cut and pieced by librettist Henri Cain, Jules Massenet wrote an opera, wrote it seeing Feodor Chaliapin, big Russian bass, craftiest of impersonators, as the noble moulting Don Quichotte de la Mancha, Baron, Duke and Knight of the Rueful Countenance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Don Quichotte | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

...much larger, in comparison with the dog, the monkey or man. Arrange everything according to the ratio of brain to body, and you have the order of intelligence." Babies, then would outrank us all, confirming Charles Kingsley. And the elephant, who is declared to be one of the craftiest of beasts, would come out nowhere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONSIDER THE ELEPHANT | 3/20/1923 | See Source »

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