Word: badness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last was not as bad as it sounds. He caught 16 trout, weighing about 15 Ibs., but he caught them in the privately-stocked preserve of onetime (1911-29) Senator George Payne McLean near Simsbury. Fishing without a license on a private preserve breaks no Connecticut law. And, anyway, the Connecticut Legislature, so soon as it heard what was going on, passed a special act empowering Governor Trumbull to issue special complimentary licenses to his prospective son-in-law's father or any other distinguished guest who may drop into the State. With Citizen Coolidge in the news appeared...
...tedious melodrama, full of conventional photography and exaggerated acting. Magnolia (Laura La Plante), an awkward young woman with a long jaw, elopes with Gaylord Ravenal (Joseph Schildkraut) in a rowboat. Later she becomes a great actress, though this is hard to believe because Miss La Plante is such a bad one. Best shot: the play given on the stage of the show boat. Silliest shot: Schildkraut drunk...
...Hoover, smiled and said nothing. Baron Cushendun of Great Britain frowned in silence. Outside the Commission room they both expressed themselves to correspondents in scathing terms, though "not for publication." The plan was not worthy of criticism or consideration, they indicated, because they believed it had been "offered in bad faith." They did not offer any alternative plan, perhaps because the Commission long ago became almost inextricably entangled in its so-called Draft Convention for a Disarmament Conference (TIME, April...
...second major proposal of last week was offered on behalf of Germany. It envisions an international agreement pledging every nation to make public all details concerning its armaments. Although very unpopular among the Allied Powers, this plan cannot be ignored as offered in "bad faith," because it happens to be only a very slight extension of Article VIII of the Covenant of the League of Nations, which provides that League states must confide to each other all about their armaments, though in practice they never...
With proper expectation of contracts to design airports, architects at the Architectural & Allied Arts Exposition in Manhattan (TIME, April 22), secured a day last week to express their ideas. Naturally they warned against too precipitate airport building. Aviation still does not know what it requires in fields. Bad example is England's Croydon field. It was remodeled and enlarged just a year ago. Now it must be altered again at great cost. Airport ideas presented at Manhattan included underground passages to holes where planes would be waiting ready to start, great landing platforms over steamship piers, and a community...