Word: badness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Straight Bust: A business man, through bad commercial judgment or bad markets, overstrains his credit, owes more than he can pay, gives up all assets to the Court, conscientiously assists in settling his debts...
...lowest courts and old political debts can be quietly discharged by appointment of a small group of the judge's friends as receivers. A judge's old law partner may likewise be overfavored with such assignments from the court. A good Federal judge scatters his receiverships; a bad one uses them for political or personal profit...
...these hopes were dashed when it was learned that Bishop Francis J. McConnell of the Methodist Church had been chosen (unanimously) as President of the Council for the next four years, as this action seems to make certain that the matter, instead of going from bad to better is going from bad to worse-if that be possible...
...bank examiners issued no premature estimate of possible losses. City Trust Co., with its main offices and four branches, had deposits of $7,300,000. Its president, F. M. Ferrari, had died Feb. 2. There followed rumors of bad investments, of unsound conditions. It will be months before definite announcement of settlement will be made. Meanwhile depositors have only the comfort of knowing that their demands will be satisfied before those of stockholders...
...Carnegie Hall, as if for Kreisler or Paderewski, a great crowd gathered. Its chief motive seemed to be curiosity. Its reward was an exhibition of incredibly bad singing. But few seemed to mind. The bulk of the audience applauded loudly, encouraged the kittenish Walska ways, the heaving surface sorrows, until the few real friends of music present were as mortified for their fellow listeners as for the performer...