Word: badness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They had been reading only bad news for a long time. For other dealers, the news was fine. Preliminary field reports showed that deliveries of eleven leading makes were 40% above last year, same period. But those reports did not include the four Chrysler cars-their distribution had been hamstrung for seven weeks by the Chrysler strike...
...little courtesies count. She was not at home when ex-King Amanullah of Afghanistan toured European courts, but she went out of her way to give a ceremonious welcome to Hirohito, then Crown Prince and now Emperor of Japan. Afghanistan meant nothing in The Netherlands' life; Japan, a bad neighbor in the Far East, meant a great deal...
...weather is apt to be bad, and the price is often regarded as exorbitant. But despite all that, an overflow crowd flocked into the Stadium today. Most of the general public was seated somewhere behind the goalposts, but if there were more of these seats they would always be gobbled up quickly...
...left him in 1931 and, like Spain, began a new chapter of life. She rejoiced with the rest of the Spanish people in the somewhat piteous end of the King "with his evil-looking nose and famous bad breath." First woman to be divorced in Spain, she promptly married Ignacio Hidalgo de Cisneros, who was to become Chief of the Loyalist Air Force during the Civil War. Under the tepid, professorial new Republic she lived in Rome and Berlin, where her husband, as Air Attaché, learned much of value, which, however, did not interest his Government...
...English correspondents and visitors, she has good to say of Hemingway, Jay Allen, Josephine Herbst, Dorothy Parker, Joe North; bad of Errol Flynn, Field Marshal Sir Philip Chetwood...