Word: badness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perhaps no wonder that Bishop Garland was vexed by such persistent bad luck, but it seemed hardly fair to charge the four decliners with fear of hard work. Each is industrious in a busy diocese. A bishop coadjutor helps a bishop and succeeds to his position after his death, retirement or removal from office. Herein he differs from a bishop suffragan who also helps a bishop but does not necessarily succeed him. The yearly salary of the Philadelphia bishop coadjutor is $10,000, plus $2,500 for maintenance of a house...
...been starring consistently on the Harvard attack throughout the season, and was in the lineup when the sextet faced Yale in the series' opening encounter last Saturday. A few minutes after the starting whistle blew, however, a hard Yale check sent him crashing into the boards. He sustained a bad back injury which, it was confidently hoped, would improve enough to permit him to play tomorrow; but his recovery has been slow, and he will not see action in this game at least...
Chang of Shantung. The big bad news of last week was that detested and notorious Chang Tsung-Chang, onetime rapacious war lord of Shantung was back in his old province and battling for possession of it with 26,000 ragged, nondescript troops...
...donating his services and he contemplates the work with a festal excitement which no salary could induce. Architects and designers enjoy world's fairs as spectacular outlets for their creative urge, and this time Chicago will not tolerate a stale display of plaster-of-paris Classicism, bad Byzantine and garbled Gothic. The architecture will be 20th Century in spirit and detail...
Kibitzer. Fannie Brice, playing Cleopatra, once described herself as "a bad woman but good company." Kibitzer is that sort of play. Structurally it has its weaknesses, but as an evening's entertainment there is no better bargain of its kind on Broadway at the moment. It is a Jewish Lightnin...