Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...morgue bodies strewed the floor because all the slabs were occupied. A sign painter lettered the names of the victims on a large billboard as they were identified. There were 125 all told, including 17 from the staff of the Clinic. It was the worst catastrophe in Cleveland since 172 schoolchildren were burned to death...
Iowa's Dickinson, erstwhile staunch Hooverite, derided the bill as "one of the worst, from an agricultural standpoint, ever presented to the House." His Iowa colleague, Representative Ramseyer, echoed his sentiments, denounced items in the bill as "indefensible." Chairman Haugen of the Agricultural Committee grew more grumpy than usual over the lumber and shingles duty and the failure of the measure to restrict vegetable oils...
...number of his ward in the last institution he attended- is now a successful publicity director, but he was once a drunkard suffering from delirium tremens with all its accoutrement of weird hallucination. A pest to his family, he voluntarily entered various asylums for "cures," but remained involuntarily. Worst of the lot was the private sanitarium which he entered docilely enough, till he noticed the barred windows and thug-attendants. He thereupon tried to leave, but his board, $40 a week "and extras," was too valuable to the "doctor." Lashed to an iron cot in the canvas sack that...
...Jayvees, however, were not so fortunate. Their race came off over an hour earlier when the Basin was at its worst, and although all three crews finished the race above water, all sank before they reached the nearby float...
...that Russia at her worst has done nothing worse than France has done! France has repudiated four-fifths of her national debts, and there are many British people who patriotically lent money to France during the War who have been practically ruined by France bilking her national obligations...