Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...government from the Agrarian majority party by a coup d' état (TIME, June 18, 1923) and began their reign of terror by allegedly causing the assassination of the Agrarian Premier Stambuliski (TIME, June 25, 1923) numerous foreign observers have characterized the regime of Premier Tsankov "the worst and most ruthless Government in Europe...
...district offices" shall be filled by the executive, says a law of North Dakota. Accordingly the governor of that state, to fill a vacancy in the Senate, appointed Gerald P. Nye as Senator, although North Dakota statutes do not ordinarily mean Congressional offices by the term "State . . . offices." Worst of all the governor did not consult his legislature, as the Federal Constitution provides, in making the appointment...
...there are thousands of them. No, this is not a fable; it is an introduction. It introduces to Plympton Street and to the world at each end of Plympton Street, and even beyond, a column worthy longer and wider streets or greens or whatnot, a column which will at worst be a cenotaph, at best a pillar of salt. For, "if the salt shall lose its savor"--whereof the column? To Perfervid Professors and People In The Next Seats is it dedicated. Civilizations and columns are built on both...
...reminds one to offer a plume to Philip Guedala, whose historical sketches have been a delightful condiment to the "Harper's" diet as he has rattled realities in the closets of the past and to the bold and true who recently suggested that the publishing of Miss Lowell's worst verse in all and sundry magazines does not help the sale of the "Life". There should be a Society for the Protection of the Reputations of Deceased Authors. Then literary Jerry Crunchers would have harder work, meriting their doctorates...
...play was worst at fault in the adaptation. So daintily and agreeably were most of the characters drawn that life seemed to desert them. Nevertheless excellent acting was in evidence, in addition to M. Lerner's, from Philip Merivale and Martha Bryan-Allen...