First Round, January 2019

Which of the following numbers is the largest number you can get by separating the numbers $1$, $2$, $3$, $4$, and $5$ by using each of the operations $+$, $-$, $:$, and $\times$ exactly once, where you may use parentheses to indicate the order in which the operations should be executed? For example: $(5-3)\times (4+1):2=5$.

A) $21$ B) $\frac{53}{2}$ C) $33$ D) $\frac{69}{2}$ E) $35$