Word: wormed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very little effect on Mr. Nathan whose self complacence seems to grow the harder it is buffetted. On the surface his criticism is clever and thin, but after a more careful consideration of his longer works the cleverness becomes keenness and what seemed superficiality is really cogency without the worm eaten prop of dry scholarship...
...horror of gambling." Upon this firm, High Church foundation the present Edward of Wales and Prince George played baccarat last week without stirring the faintest ripple of British criticism. Edward VII, by his adroit, indomitable stand, made his successors safe even from the Low Church, not to mention the worm-high Nonconformists...
...snobbery jolly well right. Year after year we submit to the patronage of a procession of such visitors, turn the other cheek, and apparently yearn for a third, that we might also turn it. "If it takes whole lecture shiploads of Mr. Priestleys to make the long lethargic American worm turn, then I am for whole lecture shiploads of visiting patronizers seeking American patronage." Charles Dickens was among the first British novelists to profit from cracking America across the face;† and, as Mr. Priestley said last week, "Dickens is still read in America." Miss Hurst, and many another...
...insistent attempts of the daily newspapers to worm out definite statements on this affair have all proved unsuccessful. The papers might, at last, learn that announcements will be made impartially to all members of the press, when the time comes to make them. Importunate pressure and ill-timed gossip of this kind is an embarrassment to all concerned...
...long road and the worm has turned. With youth, discontent is frequently the first step toward progress, and occasionally dissatisfaction has led to some rather original methods of melioration. A young man who has evidently experienced a protracted period of unemployment offered yesterday morning in the advertising section of a New York paper "a chance for an employer". The announcement suggests that a personable young male of twenty-one, enjoying excellent health, and a prepossessing appearance, with an education and a liberal share of gray matter, will consider legibly written offers of less than 500 words from prospective employers...