Word: badness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British is more than I can understand. I fear our present sentiments would cause Washington, Hamilton and Patrick Henry to blush with embarrassment. We licked the damn English once, now why the hell do we have to pal around? If we do go in again it will be a bad mistake. One man can keep us out. I think most of us are willing to admit now that Franklin D. Roosevelt is our greatest president. If he keeps us out of this war, he will go down in history as the greatest leader of men of all time...
...Jimmie speaking" was the reply . . . and went on, "I say Kate-have you read your Times yet?" "No, I haven't-why?" "The news looks bad-Russia and Germany have signed a pact. I'm leaving here today and getting back home. It looks bad I tell you and I want to see my uniform is alright." "Well give me a ring before you do go to say 'Goodbye.' " "Alright, Kate-Goodbye." Sank back in my bed and that dull thud, thud in the head overtook me, the thud of wondering, imagining and trying...
...While she was speeding on, we worked hard and painted the ship grey all over. We were told to paint or drown. On September 3, Captain [Adolf] Ahrens told us that war had started and that the situation was bad...
...last winter Dr. John Henry McLeod of Washington bent over an eight-month-old baby who lay coughing and rattling in his crib. The baby had a bad case of flu, as he could tell for sure when he examined under the microscope slides made from the baby's tears and saliva. What he saw was swarms of vicious pneumococci and tiny, rod-shaped, bloodsucking Hemophilus influenzae, most common of the numerous organisms connected with flu. To combat the pneumococci, he gave the baby injections of the remarkable new drug sulfapyridine. Against the Hemophili he had no weapons...
...cripple confined to his second-story bedroom in a gloomy, gaslit brownstone house on 57th Street. Eilshemius persists in sitting with his back to the window, his face turned away from the light. He shrills at visitors: "It's too late to enjoy my fame. I got bad legs...