Word: furthermost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...From the extreme boundaries of the east, to the furthermost west we are reached by the cries of peoples whose Kings or Governments have risen up or conspired against God and His Church. We have seen in these nations divine and human rights trodden under foot, temples destroyed from their foundations up and priests and sacred virgins evicted from their houses, imprisoned and subjected to persecution. We have seen young boys and girls dragged from the bosom of the Church, urged to deny and blaspheme against Christ and led to the worst sins of luxury...
Further down towards University Hall an original gentleman trots along in a beret, very proud of the scornful looks and sotto-voce remarks wasted on him. Up the steps of Widener stamps an immaculate professor in an equally immaculate light grey felt on his way to the furthermost stacks of the Library...
...Louise Homer herself who was singing at the Metropolitan for the first time in eight seasons. For the audience it was just as memorable, for Contralto Homer had lost little of her vocal power and none of the grand manner that projected every little gesture to the furthermost corners of the house...