Word: ugliest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stock crash, he cut him short with: "I've heard of that, too." He was recommended to the committee as a prosecutor who would not "play up publicity." But black and blaring were the headlines he created by his practice of eliciting just enough evidence to put the ugliest possible face on a given set of facts. Thus, once he had brought out the information that Banker Morgan & Partners paid no 1931 and 1932 income tax, he was ready to drop the subject. The firm's witnesses had almost to fight their way to the stand...
...because she could not bear "Claude." Once the late Poetess Amy Lowell asked him his real name. He told her. "Good Lord!" shouted the terrifying poetess, clapping one hand on his shoulder, the other on the shoulder of another guest. "Here's the time for tears. The three ugliest names in the world all here in this hallway. Claude...
...ugliest professional athletes in the U. S. last week crawled through the ropes of a ring at Madison Square Garden. One was blubbery Ed ("Strangler") Lewis, recognized by the New York State Athletic Commission as the heavyweight wrestling champion of the world. The other was crook-nosed Ray Steele, whose challenge the Commission had ordered Lewis to accept...
...Peering out of Lambeth Palace, where he lives, the Archbishop of Canterbury used to see "the cheapest and ugliest bridge across the Thames...
...Kreuger Scandal, already grown into one of the ugliest affairs in business history, last week increased in malignancy. At the time of Herr Kreuger's suicide it was suspected that there were '"irregularities" in his books. By last week the '"irregularities" had been disclosed as fraud of the worst type. Then came two disclosures which shattered the last vestige of admiration which could have attached itself to the late great maker of matches. Disclosure No. 1, coming with the arrest of three of Kreuger's associates, was that the "irregularities" were not born of falling markets...