Word: badness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mississippi Company was organized by the Scotch economist and gambler, John Law, to run the French finances and monopolize the Mississippi trade. Shares were put on the market at 500 livres and mounted in the course of the craze to 20,000, although French finances were in a bad way and there was no Mississippi trade to speak of. Men sold their all and hastened to Paris, crowding the Rue Quincampoix, the Bourse of that day. Shares even were sold for a company to exploit perpetual motion and "for a design which will hereafter be promulgated." In 1820 the whole...
...They say that Poincare told Chiappe to raid the peep shows because the Government thought they were giving Paris a bad name. Most of them were run by Algerians or Levantines or Greeks. Of course Chiappe hasn't interfered with the regular, licensed-maisons kept and patronized by the French themselves. He has been out after the tourist show places...
Negroes may be freed from civil slavery, but segregation of them in colored churches is just as bad, declared Dr. Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, president of Howard University, Washington, D. C., before the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, in convention at Rochester, N. Y. The Council, completing its quadrennial meeting, adopted resolutions to give special attention to the griefs of Negro brethren...
There is a decrease in this year's Freshman class of 22 men whose adenoids and tonsils have--been removed. The Freshman class musters two more appendices than does the Sophomore, while 28 more Freshmen have bad teeth and six less smoke...
...Circus Kid is not a bad picture to see if there is nothing good...