Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...katydids and crickets of the rural South to the nocturnal jazz of Harlem. A wag once remarked that, 'the Jews own New York, the Irish run it and the Negroes enjoy it.' " In the South the Negro is at his best in the rural districts, at his worst in the cities. As the tenant of a small farm or as the worker in a cotton or tobacco field, he is content and productive; but in the cities indolence and vice seem to be stimulated. Politics, lynching and the relations between low whites and Negro women are three...
...price of eggs by furnishing guaranteed "new-laid" eggs only on payment of 35 cents, instead of the quarter previously charged for any eggs, whether fresh or primeval; another has omitted bread, butter, and drinks from its "special" combinations without proportionate reduction in price, with resultant more costly meals. Worst of all man called a gregarious animals, must at Harvard eat in cafeterias alone or with as impromptu collection of associates...
Commenting on the case only this morning Dr. John Straton Narrow told the Corrugated Press correspondent that it was the worst example of mystery he had seen since the birth of the Neanderthal man. Also Her Royal Highness the Queen of Rheumatica has offerred to send her comments over the C.P. wire every day for the next year at reduced rates...
William Sowden Sims, retired Rear Admiral: "Sitting peacefully in my home at Newport, R. I., last week, I was startled by a sudden crash at a window beside me. I leaped to my feet, ready for the worst. Upon the floor amid jagged splinters of glass lay a hawk as big as a Rhode Island...
PROHIBITION AT ITS WORST- Irving Fisher-Macmillan ($1.75). With the zeal of a trumpeting reformer and the statistical finality of an economics professor, Irving Fisher of Yale has produced a monograph to show that Prohibition at its worst is good. There is everything in the book from little sermons on the evils of alcohol to a concise history of Prohibition in the U. S. Professor Fisher is a veritable Gene Tunney to the wet. First, he twists the ear of the doubting reader with such statements as "The use of liquor is no more natural than the use of opium...