Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plans for defense are concerned, they are the worst of any country I know...
...traders in particular. The resignation (TIME, Sept. 15) of William M. Ward as President, although undoubtedly due to the stated cause of ill-health, aroused further concern. Finally, the annual report of the Company for 1924 appeared as a fitting climax. It showed that the Company had had the worst year since its organization...
Andrew G. Pierce, newly elected President, declared : "Veteran mill men have characterized the depression as the "worst since the Civil War, and our experience would seem to bear out the statement." There seems to be little of the Pollyanna about Mr. Pierce. Concerning the company's future, he said, "the new year is not sufficiently advanced to make predictions valuable...
...worst influences in this tendency, he said, is that of the moving pictures. "I have only seen one really worth-while film," he said, "which was one starring the diver, Annette Kellerman. The beauty and grace of her performance could not be equalled outside of the sculpture of classic Greece and yet even this was marred by the taint of realism. Whenever she would strike the water someone behind the screen struck a cymbal to represent the splash...
dangerous for a Republican to attack a Monarchist. It may land him in jail for a long period or cost him a lot of money in fines. A Monarchist, however, may attack a Republican with impunity or, at worst, get a few days' sentence with the option of a small fine. The reason for this state of affairs is that most of the legal luminaries are Monarchists, who held most of the good jobs in the Kaisers' days- a fact which explains the intellectual superiority of the Monarchist over the antiMonarchist Parties. Recently, Republican Judge Kroner, referring...