Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...worst thing that could happen to this country would be a step backward in our fight against liquor. . . . Such a change [repeal of the 18th Amendment] would be a calamity, but there's no possibility of it. As for present enforcement conditions, we manage to get along well enough at Detroit, although we are next door to Canada. Personally I'd turn out the army and navy to stop bootlegging...
Knowing persons recalled that all smart sea captains make a practice of announcing or denying the occurrence of sea marvels-such as "worst storms," "first whales of the season" or "largest icebergs"-with intent to cause the names of their ships to appear in public prints. Indulgent pressmen did not mind printing the ships which went a-Gulf-Streaming last week: Homeric & Majestic, Mauretania and Columbus...
...something big for Yale," says the daughter of a professor to an undergraduate who had come all the way from Argentine. And what does the Argentine? He tucks the pigskin under his dislocated shoulder and runs 90 yards for the winning touchdown in the last quarter. It is the worst rah-rah film on record. Rod La Roque as the Argentine is obnoxious. Jeanette Loff as the professor's daughter is a pretty discovery...
...Three Kingdoms, has no time to concern herself with men like the naive hero of the present volume. Nat Grimshaw, charming enough in his way, takes himself so seriously that his growing pains alternate dull with exasperating. Knowing nothing of women, Nat is tricked into marrying one of the worst; then goes off to war (the Great War again). When he got home his wife announced herself unfaithful, and wanting a divorce soon-but not till convenient for her lover. Meanwhile she proposed to satisfy her husband's immediate desire of her, and spineless Nat accepted the situation, complete...
...Lawrence has played less the artist and more the psychiatrist, his favorite study still the positive and negative reactions of sex attraction and repulsion. At their best the short stories of the present collection are a neurological graph done into Lawrence's powerful prose, and at their predominant worst (witness the title story) they are queer extravaganzas of symbology...