Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week to serve with the troops. Minister of Communications Umberto Puppini will command infantry divisions. Minister of Colonies General Emilio de Bono will serve as a field judge. Minister of Education Francesco Ercole will head field telegraph and radio. Minister of Finance Guido Jung has a regiment of artillery. Hardest job goes to Under Secretary of Corporations Alberto Asquini who will be responsible for one of the still untried celeri divisions. Easiest goes to dapper, foppish Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Fulvio Suvich, whose principal job is to serve as Il Duce's messenger boy at international conferences. He will...
Declared gusty, florid William Alexander Campbell, editor of the Independent: ''Whew, what a relief! Don't get the idea I was vacationing during the strike. I worked the hardest I have in years. Maybe I can take it easy...
...newspapers: Col. William Franklin Knox's Daily News; William Randolph Hearst's American and Herald & Examiner; Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick's Tribune. General Johnson did not have to be told by any Chicagoan that the New Deal in general and NRA in particular had been given the longest and hardest editorial drubbing anywhere in the land by these four dailies. Col. McCormick was also chairman of the Press Freedom Committee of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association and. as such, had taken a loud and leading position against any NRA attempt to silence its critics...
...June 1933 the company sent out two salvage boats in charge of its ace operations man, a spidery, sun-browned little spitfire named Frank Curtis. This looked to Frank Curtis like the hardest job of his life. Grappling lines slipped and snapped, power winches broke. In August the salvage crew was ready to quit. Spitfire Curtis jumped up & down, barked, screamed and swore until they went back to work. In October an anchor chain whacked Frank Curtis across the legs, almost cut them off. Two hours later, with two men holding him upright, he was back on deck directing operations...
...night there was a terrific shindy; next morning the prisoners learned their captors had been hijacked by bandits. The change made little difference to them. As they picked up more of the language they heard many a bloodthirsty threat. Aside from cramped quarters, boredom, vermin, bad food, the hardest thing they had to endure was hair-pulling, nose-and- ear-tweaking. The bandits delighted in calling them names. When asked what was the English for an obscene Chinese epithet, Author Johnson replied: "Parlez vous français?" "They were delighted and they spend their time saying Parlez vous fran...