Word: worst
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...infrequently finds in undergraduate publications evidence of a kind of verbal intoxication, the result of some youth's finding a fount of critical terms, and drinking too much before he knew how strong it was--with unseemly results. A. W. W.'s performance is by far the worst instance of this I have ever seen. Never before, I believe, have two pages of the Monthly contained so much unadulterated nonsense, so many and so various murderous assaults upon English usage. "Together," says A. W. W., of Browning and Mackaye, "their spirit-prayers pulso upward, and in the years two before...
...poems, the best are those by Cuthbert Wright and S. L. M. Barlow; the worst is Yvonne, by Arthur Wilson. One stanza will explain why, and perhaps induce collectors to buy the Monthly...
These coolies, who perform harder physical labor for longer hours than do most beasts of burden and in addition undergo the worst of privations and hardships, are nevertheless possessed of the greatest cheerfulness. Naturally immobile and entirely devoid of nervous emotion, the race is characterized by the greatest patience, and many centuries of suffering have strengthened it against all external conditions...
...before any student purchases one of these mechanical noise-producers, he should consider carefully what would be the combined effect of, say, ten thousand such instruments at the game tomorrow. The occasion would degenerate into a confused bedlam of noises, and organized cheering and singing would be impossible. But worst of all, Harvard men would be open to the charge of resorting to clasp, unfair and professional lactics in order to disconcert an opponent...
...number, though short, is happily varied: timely discussion is succeeded by prose and verse in which time is little concerned and by editorial articles concise and to the point. Some of the work lacks technical skill; none of it is discreditable; and nearly all of it is interesting. The worst thing in the number is the elephantine finesse of the maxim appended to the table of contents...