Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...buck, and finally riding him "out", after he had been scraped against several fences, carried through others, and carried round, and round the arena. Then there was a cowboy, the best rider in the West, who because he was a Pendleton boy had to "ride out" four of the worst horses in a period of forty-five minutes before the judges would award him the championship for that year. And this in spite of the fact that he had entered the contest with a broken right forearm...
...young lover, were very satisfactory. The part of the villian handicapped Mr. Charlton Miss Miller outshone the others as the emotional Betty Eustis, and entered freely into her character. The play is not the best thing that the St. James has shown, but it is far from being the worst...
...idealist, and it is American idealism, its immense good nature, its simplicity, its readiness to believe as well of others as of itself, which is at the back of both these efforts to cure the world of one its most invest- erate vices, or at least to assuage the worst of its ills. The weakness of the League of Nations is that its methods are too rigid for easy working and its powers too slight for its needs. So America, which begat the League and then deserted it, set to work in her truly practical and business way to improvise...
Throughout the centuries, innocent Armenia has been the victim of the world's worst treatment. It is the oldest Christian community in the world; most of its suffering have arisen from its firm faith. America, always proud of its humanitarianism, has a particular reason for interest in Armenia. Having refused as a nation the political responsibility for its government, the least we can do as individuals is to contribute to this human cause. Christmas with us is a time of spending and enjoyment; it will be a small matter for most of us to spare something for the fund. Five...
...call those yet to come, those that touch on the real problems of the day--disarmament and the Chinese question? In spite of the fact that the Conference has been praised lavisly and hailed as a great success, its first real achievement is only the beginning of things. The worst of the petty quibbling in the United States Senate is not that it prevents the ratification of the Four Power Treaty--that is sin enough--but that it prevents any possibility of a really successful Conference...