Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Strathnaver, 73, unchallenged maritime seigneur,** deigned to make no statement last week when the P. & O. balance sheet flashed over the cables. For him spoke his son-in-law, the Hon. Alexander Shaw, a Director of the Bank of England and of the P. & O.: "1925 was the worst year for British shipping on record." Corroborative statistics released by the Cunard Line show a profit for that proverbially well managed concern of only $1,600,000 for 1925. The truth is that the supply of freight bottoms has so disastrously exceeded the demand that freight rates are no higher than...
...cows into rocks, grass into whirling waves, and a chip of moon became a mad sun leering like an eyeball in the forehead of a vast, demented skyscape. Nothing made him so angry as praise of pictures he considered poor. Once a financier stopped with ponderous approbation before the worst canvas in his studio. "Marvelous, Mr. Innes. The most perfect thing you have done...
...Manhattan hotels this year instead of to Columbia University dormitories; that the Fourth of July had interrupted the graders with its parades, swimming, firecrackers. However, half the 22,000 candidates had been notified, announced Secretary Thomas Scott Fiske of the C. E. E. B.; the rest would know the worst "in a few days...
Alex L. Wiener the worst drubbing of that team's career, 7-5, 6-0, 6-3. The sensation of the tournament was Warren F. Coen Jr., 14 and small for his age, who won the boys' state singles championship and played, acceptably, two exhibition sets against the champion...
...Author. In 1876 Master Stephen Butler Leacock, aged seven, of Swanmoor, Hants, England, decided to accompany his parents to a farm in Ontario. He attended Canadian colleges and taught in one of them until 1899, when he sickened of "the most dreary, the most thankless, and the worst paid profession in the world." He pursued economics and political science in Chicago, taking his Ph. D. in 1903. McGill University has employed him ever since. You sometimes see him in this country-a stocky, gruff, mop-headed little figure sitting in the quiet corner of a hotel dining room, or booming...