Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Princeton bark, 27 to 13, a close victory over Lehigh and a four-touchdown verdict over the Quakers from Sophomore have been the only other engagements. By the time Palmer Stadium saw the naval antics of the midshipmen, the injuries and the gloom at Princeton were at their worst. Since that day three weeks ago, much has been happening in the New Jersey town, how much no one will know until this afternoon...
...Bernarr Macfadden's published dejecta rises from twelve magazines and three newspapers. The magazines-Physical Culture, Dream World, True Stories, True Experiences, True Romances, National Pictorial Monthly, Movie Weekly, and the like-have a total circulation, he claims, of 5,000,000 copies. The New York Graphic, the worst of his papers in morals, is the best in circulation (360,596 daily). He has become a potent force in U. S. subculture...
...health for a nation to be able to stand the withering fire of criticism that both England and America are at present undergoing at the hands of their own people. Only the other day I heard one of your own professors, speaking of the University, say. "One of the worst features of this wretched place is......". For the moment, I though I was in England again. That is exactly the talk one hears at Oxford. It is perhaps less violent in England than here, because the English are not as vehement by temperament as the Americans, but it is present...
...origin and development of his stentorian tones. "I find that the Stadium is hardest on my voice. If have to make more than six or seven announcements during a game, I'm apt to be a bit hoarse in the evening. The Arena, however, has the worst acoustics. During five years, I've never been able to find a spot from which I can reach the entire audience...
...telegraphed Mr. Coolidge that he would like to have a few minutes' chat with him. Forthwith, the President, who has recently been revealing his human side to the nation, invited Mr. Rogers to spend the night at the White House. The funnyman arrived, dined, told some of his "Worst Stories," slept, left the next morning. Mr. Rogers then informed the press: "I guess I was too much for him. We sat around in the living-room upstairs, swapping yarns, but by 8 o'clock he started to yawn and by 10 o'clock he had fallen asleep...