Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...audience of 10,000 yielded only 40 converts, who rushed to the Four Square Pulpit and cast themselves upon the bosom of the Lord. The meagerness of thank offerings collected on the first night was disheartening. Worse still, a mere 2,000 slummy people paid admission the second evening. Worst of all, there came a rival female evangelist from New Jersey, a resolute woman with the mien of an inspired laundress-the Reverend "Bishop" Mrs. Mollie Alma White, founder and primate of the Pillar of Fire Church. Bishop White, who has thousands of disciples ("Holy Jumpers") in the British Isles...
...know how hasty she was. She put her hands in mine in that confiding way which is either the best or worst thing in women ? she was dressed in black velvet with a white ruff, and from her neck a thin white veil was flying?and so we came to the bazaar?and by the longest route. Then I did a foolish thing. I asked her whether she would buy some little article for herself?and at that she began to fade away?sure proof that she was not French but Scotch to the core...
...decidedly not-a member to the Membership Committee of the Hoover-for-President Club and allow me to remark in passing that I would not wish my worst enemy to be condemned to such a fate...
...Graf Zeppelin is not a fair weather ship," Dr. Eckener explained. "She demonstrated that . . . but I am not going to pick out the worst day to start for America. . . . Moreover the weather will determine whether we travel 4,000 miles or 6,000 miles. . . . Naturally I would like best to choose the northern route which is the shortest. . . . From the moment we reach the European coast we will need from 45 to 80 hours for the actual crossing. . . . After the fortieth hour don't worry if you do not hear from us for a long time...
...course unjustified. Ganna Walska achieved, not merely the notoriety which generally attaches to her doings; before she had put foot on the U. S., she became a cause célèbre, a wronged woman, an international affair. In short, she surpassed herself and Harold McCormick's worst presentiments. Ganna Walska arrived with 15 trunks, containing, she said, $2,500,000 worth of personal effects; and when customs officials demanded that she pay duty of approximately $1,000,000 upon these, Ganna Walska refused...