Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poorhouse." Despite their respective advantages in size and population, Kent County, R. I. (174 sq. mi.) and Granite City, Ill. (25,000 pop.) would have to devote themselves exclusively and persistently to murder, rape, arson, embezzlement and kidnapping to make the stir which the Virgin Islands have created during the past year. Three beauteous tropic specks off the eastern coast of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands have helped split a President's Cabinet, drawn a steady stream of investigators and newshawks, kept themselves prominent in the nation's Press by as fantastic a comedy of political manners...
...average Frenchman the mental picture of the Englishman is generally subordinate to his mental picture of the Englishwoman. The latter is not a flattering portrait. It is the picture of a thin, rather weather-beaten, extremely ill-dressed old maid, clad in sensible check garments, and threatening taxi-drivers with a green umbrella. The French portrait of the Englishman is superimposed upon this unwelcome image. It is the picture of an inelegant, stupid, arrogant, and inarticulate person with an extremely red face. The French seem to mind our national complexion more than other nations. It gets on their nerves. They...
...final function will be not only to train some 150,000 youths for jobs but to try to get jobs for them. Explained President Roosevelt: "We can ill afford to lose the skill and energy of these young men and women." Employers "in all types of industries" will be asked to take on the Government's wards as apprentices. Some will be taken into Government offices in order "to develop a new type of trained public servant." What hard-headed realists could not understand, however, and what President Roosevelt's sweeping blueprint failed to make clear was just...
...Stadium and a patron of the concerts, made a little speech. So did peppery, music-loving Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia. Hooted and booed by radicals on the hard 25¢ seats, the son of a onetime Army bandmaster retorted: "Music hath charms even for the savage, but not for the ill-mannered...
...Chicago truck farmer, Miss Didrikson had a narrow escape in the quarterfinals, managed to win on the 19th hole. Next day, while Helen Hicks was losing to Mrs. Opal Hill of Kansas City, who later won the tournament, Babe Didrikson was beaten by able Elaine Rosenthal Reinhardt of Winnetka, Ill., runner-up at 15 for the National Amateur Championship of 1914. Experts agreed that Babe Didrikson can already outdrive any other woman golfer, that she would need another year of practice before her short game and putting are as good...