Word: badness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, at the behest of Congress' Library Committee, Librarian Luther H. Evans announced that the library will discontinue all prizes for art, music and literature. "We think it's a bad policy for the Government...to be giving prizes and awards," explained the committee, "particularly in matters of taste...
Good Years & Bad. Embarrassed by the Post series, Aroostook farmers rushed forward with explanations. They argued, as every farmer does, that good years only made up for many bad ones, and that their business is at the mercy of the weather. They pointed out that potato raising is an expensive business, with all the costs of planting, harvesting and shipping to come out of their Government checks. But even the potato lobby in Washington (headed by Senator Owen Brewster) had realized that it had begun to overdo...
...seedy rooming houses around Talman Avenue and West Washington Boulevard on Chicago's West Side had long since decided what to do about Ernest Craig: call the cops. Craig, a tall 28-year-old Negro with a thin mustache, a hard eye and a wild laugh, was a bad man to mess around with. He kept a collection of pistols in the two rooms he occupied in a run-down corner house and he was always firing them off or leaning out the windows and pointing them at people...
Like more than 15,000 boys & girls who have gone through Freeville or one of its offshoots* since Manhattan Manufacturer William George founded his Junior Republic in 1895, they were neither delinquent nor retarded but had the problems that come from bad home and neighborhood environments. Their goal during their stay at the Republic: to work out a good "adjustment...
Gradually the assembly hopes to thin out some of the blood and muffle the thunder of the average comic rip-roarer. Most conspicuous sample of their influence to date: "Brooklyn," a raggle-taggle Boy Commandos' character with bad grammar and warped diction has been transformed into a junior Brooks Brothers type who speaks impeccable English...