Word: inferiorated
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Anita Loos, literary executor of the golddigger (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), threw up her hands at the wild younger generation, came out for more parental discipline-"you ought to smack him in the puss." She considered bobby-soxers inferior to flappers. "The flappers washed their underwear," said she. "They were neat, sexy, appealing and clean. The bobby-soxers are gross . . . they are not alluring...
That's the same as asking why able men produce an inferior product and why the public then cheers and buys it. This question cannot be answered outside of Hollywood, and must not be asked inside...
...delegates around the Luxembourg Palace council table exuded international friendliness. Cheerfully and without rancor they discussed a difficult problem: was it right to label a wine as a "Bordeaux," even if it had been diluted with inferior Algerian grapes? The cheerful worriers were delegates to an international wine convention which met in the back rooms of the Palace. When Ernie Bevin was told about their presence, he sighed wistfully: "I bet they got away to dinner at a respectable hour...
...from a kind of notion that ran in my head that nothing could have commenced at the size of infancy, and reached her present bulk in less than 35 or 40 years. . . . [But] no woman that I have seen, has a finer face . . . and in [mind] she was not inferior . . . to any with whom I had been acquainted. . . . I mustered my resolution and made the proposal to her direct; but shocking to relate, she answered No. . . . I was mortified . . . in a hundred different ways. . . . Others have been made fools of by the girls; but I most emphatically, in this instance...
Like most Norse runners, Strand prefers practicing on soft ground or a pine-needled trail rather than on a cinder track. Although he brought three pairs of Swedish shoes with him because he thinks U.S. track shoes are inferior, Strand ran two miles twice a day in his bare feet. Last week he made his U.S. debut...