Word: dreadfull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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P. & G. got its first mass-production orders in the Civil War, when it supplied all the soap for the Union armies of the West. Then, one day in 1875, a forgetful workman made a mistake that was to mold the company's future: he left his soap-mixing...
Even here in South Africa Frank Richards was a most popular name. The exploits of Harry Wharton & Co. in the Magnet were followed with intense eagerness by schoolboys between the years 1910-20. Our lives were actually influenced by the characters. In my own family, as youngsters, we didn'...
I would have given much to have kept this dreadful interview out of your columns . . . I thank God that there are few like him in the great Anglican church . . .
Testimonial. In Adelaide, Australia, explaining why the Springfield Brewery lost $38,354 in 1952, Board Chairman P. B. Angas Parsons -told shareholders: "The beer . . . was something appalling, just dreadful. Some of it was completely undrinkable, a good substitute for vinegar."
To emphasize the occult, the stories are dressed in all the horrors of a Penny-dreadful--fog, train whistles, echoing voices, mist shrouded waters--and it all seems too heavy for the stories to bear. The worst sufferer is a drab little fable with the moral the Beauty Lies in...