Word: wormed
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...partner who remained silent while the elder delivered his message in the University News Office, their second stop at Harvard. They were both dressed in dungarees and old clothes, the elder claiming that they had a message from God to go forth in old clothes but clothes that were worm and comfortable...
...expected to resign at least once more. This was good Chinese tactics since the often-postponed Kuomintang Central Executive Committee- roughly corresponding to a Chinese parliament or assembly -was at last meeting in Nanking and it behooved the Dictator to intimate politely that he is a miserable worm, thus provoking exquisitely complimentary replies...
...Harvard boys seem to have acquired an ability to do gracefully that which they should not ," smilingly observed Eugenia Rawis as she observed several exam-worm specimens toying with cooling refreshments in the Ritz bar last night. "They are just too, too . . . ." but the Jane of "Pride and Prejudice" current at the Colonial left that up to the imagination and became more serious...
...explosions. Essie marries a xylophone player who comes around one day. She also devotes much of her time to the commercial manufacture of "Love Dreams," a candy, and the study of toe dancing. She and the rest of the irresponsible, carefree household are happy as a jaybird with a worm until suddenly Granddaughter Alice Sycamore (Margot Stevenson) becomes painfully aware of the family's prodigious eccentricity because she and her highly conventional employer's son, Tony Kirby, fall in love...
This was well calculated to make the King feel like a worm or sardine, † but Edward VIII found an unexpected press champion next morning in Viscount Rothermere. T his noble Lord's mass London organ, the Daily Mail (which has eight times the circulation of the Times), came out with a smashing pro-King-Emperor and anti-Prime Minister editorial. Recalling Stanley Baldwin's recent bumbling admission in the House of Commons that he would have told the public of the war danger Britain faces except that he was afraid that would lose him the last General...