Word: bettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week Winston Churchill was less like a public figure than like some oldfashioned, battered Gladstone bag stuffed full of the relics of Empire-pieces of prejudices, bits of old patriotic songs (music hall comedians used to call him "Winnie"), mementoes of old Imperial wild oats, mistakes, idyllic weekends better forgotten. Jaunty, witty, informed, expert, positive, a sparkling talker when interested, a growling monster of rudeness when bored, he said in 1939 what he had said in 1903, and knew he said it better. An unabashed lover of the sound of his own voice, talking to himself very loudly when...
...Revolution. . . . But the Russian Bolsheviks are not redeemed in interest even by the magnitude of their crimes. . . . They have emerged from the prison cells of the Cheka to make their strange unnatural confessions to the world. They have met the death in secret to which they consigned so many better and braver...
...Britain-France could not then beat Germany by hurting Italy, and Britain-France could not be sure of being masters of the Mediterranean because Italy would always be a potential threat. All this added up to the most curious proposition of last week: that Britain-France would be better off if Italy fought with Germany than if Italy stayed neutral...
...heaps of records in Victor's stockrooms had begun to gather dust. By 1932 Victor had passed from the hands of the bankers to RCA, where it became a horse's thumb among RCA's booming radio projects. Victor's competitors did no better. The 1932 gross for the entire industry reached a scant...
...published in 1905 but still in demand) as a basis, he drew again on his police and court experience to produce From the District Attorney's Office, a popular account of justice, how it works and how it fails, with liberal proposals for making it work better...