Word: better
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME SHOULD KNOW BETTER THAN TO CREDIT CHICAGO HOTEL ASSOCIATION WITH ORIGINATING DUMMY IDEA TO UNJINX 13 AT TABLE [TIME, June 12]. BOSTON'S PARKER HOUSE STARTED IT AND TOLD THE WORLD ABOUT IT IN A PAID TIME COLUMN...
...went over to Daddy. I thought he might be ashamed of me for crying like that. And so I said to him. 'Daddy, you know I was only acting.' And he said, 'Yes, I know that.' But he knew better...
...onetime boy friends, Mayor Maestri and Hotelman Seymour Weiss of New Orleans, were no less interested in this development than was State Senator James A. Noe, onetime friend of Huey's friends. It was Mr. Noe who was reported to have stirred up Washington columnists, hoping thereby to better his chances to wrest the Governorship from the Leche-Maestri-Weiss organization next year. If he runs Senator Noe will have to beat Earl Long, who will have to rumple up both his hair and his personality before he can hope to equal his late brother in vote appeal...
...Germany last week the harvest, which is expected to be better than average, had hardly begun. But 60,000 Czechs, 45,000 Slovaks were brought into the Reich to gather it. Italy promised to send 37,000 katzelmacher (cat-eaters, so called because Bavarians suppose starving Italian field-hands steal and stew German cats). Every German woman was urged to go out on the land, help gather in the crops. It was estimated that at least 500,000 women of 60 years or more are doing farm labor in the Reich. Members of the Hitler Youth movement were commanded...
...grandfather, Joseph Medill, had founded), and Patterson was as much responsible for the common touch in its news coverage as McCormick was for its conservative editorial bias. The two conceptions did not quite jell in the Tribune and Joe Patterson did not get along with his Cousin Bertie much better than he had with other rich boys. During the War they agreed that the Tribune was too small for them both. The decision to start the News, according to Colonel McCormick's recollection, was reached on a manure pile in France...