Word: inferiors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stepmother country'' she found that the worst thing was "the boneless quality of English conversation . . . like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.'' But it saved Author Halsey from feeling inferior. English weather, about which most conversation revolved, made her think "I was going to grow a coating of moss on the north side." but she liked the green countryside. She ridiculed the diminutive look of England (''the locomotives are only about thirty-four inches around the bust"), but came to like the homey atmosphere it gave. Oppressed by ''that...
...predictions by observers in the U. S., Britain and France that Italy's vital wheat crop would fall far below normal this year. Folding his brawny arms across a tanned torso, Mussolini shouted: "I confirm that this year's harvest is superior in quality and but little inferior in quantity to that of last year...
...belonging to Sponsor Louis), the Utica Riding Club Horse Show was not far different from the flashy horse shows it tried to ape. No. 1 judge of the show, W. C. Overton, whose regular job is supervising the paddock at the Detroit racetrack, thought Joe Louis' form far inferior in the show ring to the prize ring, awarded him a third-place yellow ribbon in the five-gaited saddle class...
...OVERTURE No. 2 (London Symphony, Felix Weingartner conducting; Columbia: 4 sides). For his opera Fidelia, fastidious, hardworking Beethoven wrote four different overtures. Of these the first, in point of time, was the one now mislabeled Leonore No. 2. Overshadowed by the brilliant Leonore No. 3, to which it is inferior, Leonore No. 2 has long awaited recording...
...amused when he told them the South had no university that approached the scholarly eminence of Harvard, Chicago, Columbia, California, Yale or any of a score of institutions in the North and West. They were shocked when brash Mr. Embree asserted that today the South is producing not only inferior scholars and gentlemen but indifferent judges of whiskey. Said he: "When the concepts of this phrase were widely realized in the lives of her sons, the South bristled with distinction. In so far as these ideals have fallen into desuetude, the South has drifted into mediocrity. This . . . section will regain...