Word: ugliest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dannemora is Clinton prison, called "Siberia" by New York's underworld. There are herded the state's ugliest criminals in vicious, degenerate brotherhood. They work for 1¢ per day. While idling in the yard, 1,300 inmates suddenly mutinied, beat two guards, set fire to buildings, stormed the walls. They were unarmed but they fought for five hours. Prison guards, state troopers and citizen volunteers (including famed Baritone Reinald Werrenrath) finally quelled them with machine and riot guns, tear bombs, hand grenades. Three convicts were killed, many injured. Estimated damage...
...this organization the continuance of a tradition which played no small part in the making of Harvard University. Even if circumstances brought about the loss of Professor Baker and his guiding hand, the work which he inspired might better have been encouraged, rather than have been abandoned for the ugliest possible commercialism. Roger Wilson...
Butte became certainly the ugliest town in the world, surrounded by mountains of gray-green refuse and black slag. Within the mines, men faced the imminent dangers of cave-ins and fires. When the timber supports once became ignited there was no hazarding when the fire might end. The St. Lawrence mine at Butte caught fire in 1899. Last week, it was still burning. And when miners were not meeting underground dangers, they kept one hand on their guns. Strangers in Butte spoke softly. Painted women learned it was safer to laugh than to talk...
...book-designing is a recent development in printing. The first Eng- lish printed books by Caxton had for type the Flemish script which was perhaps the ugliest of all forms of writing. This evil influence dominates the whole of English printing for the greater part of the nineteenth century, and is not yet extinct...
...Ringling's agents prevailed upon her to travel with the circus and to pose as "the ugliest woman in the world" as a means of livelihood. Mr. Ringling is kind to his people and she is well cared for. But she suffers from intolerable headaches, has become nearly blind, and permits herself to be laughed at and heckled by an unfeeling people in order to provide the wherewithal to educate her four children. Beauty is but skin deep. Being a physician, I do not like to feel that TIME can be frivolous over the tragedies of disease...