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Word: sorriest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...energetically shouted by 52nd Street's Scotcha Ella Logan; one big, loud ensemble, hymning Tin Pan Alley; Tapper Ann Miller, who has some things Tapper Eleanor Powell has not; and a shimmy-shake called the Mexiconga, which will not be a successor to Producer White's Black Bottom. Sorriest Scandal: John L. Lewis picketing a bedded couple who refuse to join a union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Musical in Manhattan: Sep. 11, 1939 | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...Until last week Wall Street wags were describing 1939's spring bull market as the one that walked away from the steel stocks and left them right where (some below) the last bear market had flung them. Last week the market ended its sorriest month in 18 years (11,967,390 shares traded), was slipping back toward depressed steels: after the rail stocks failed to Dow-confirm June 10's industrial high of 140.14 (TIME, June 26), the industrials had fallen more than 10 points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: December Forecast | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...anti-necking campaign by sneaking up on parked cars, yanking co-eds out of back seats. Brilliant, introvert Virgin Jerry Young is a beautiful woman whose career as a psychologist is wrecked when she is driven out of town by neurotic, wisecracking natives after a trumped-up arrest. Sorriest egotist of the lot is handsome John Smith, who marries with the belligerent vow always to tell his wife the truth. When he kisses his secretary, he tells his wife that the secretary sneaked up on him. He admits looking at other women's legs, but turns his confession into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Egomaniacs | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...Sorriest Class I railroad in the U. S. is Minneapolis & St. Louis ("The Peoria Gateway"). It has been in receivership for twelve years, owes accumulated interest equal to one-fourth of its assets, which are largely nominal, and is still indebted to the Government for loans from the Wartime Director General of Railroads. In desperation RF Chairman Jesse Jones proposed to partition M. & St. L. among eight more solvent neighbors (TIME, Oct. 29). Last week after a year of dickering, the eight systems petitioned the Interstate Commerce for permission to start carving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Partition Petition | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

...creatures for whom both exist. Unable to live long, they claim a special beauty for their limited lives. Unable to conceive eternity, they worship time. Unable to avoid suffering and disappointment, they pretend that these are nobler teachers than felicity and truth. Unable to achieve anything better than the sorriest confusion in their minds, they chatter about the unfathomable variety of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Double Ascension | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

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