Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...declared that the world was not ready for peace. Said she: "The people who talk the most about it are often the most quarrelsome. When you get among them they talk about a better world and they knock you down when they get you in the lobby. The worst thing in this world you could have at this moment would be total disarmament. The greatest enemies of peace are the pacifists. . . . You might as well get rid of the police in London but you keep them because you want...
...Osborn: "So far the worst and dullest and most futile play of the season that there is no calculable second in the race. . . Our best emotion during the evening was one of sympathy for Miss Phoebe Foster. . . for being associated with the cast of this worthless production...
...Best and Worst in Last...
...last act is worth a column in itself. This is what the artful dramatist has been building for all the time. Space forbids a discussion here; besides it is not quite fair to reveal it. It contains the best and the worst of the play. Besides one or two seemingly curious contradictions of character, there is a showy device of dramatic technique in the inquisition scene which seems in poor taste,-- a dissent from good dramaturgy to bad artifice, so it seems to me. You may not agree...
...before going on. The American world fliers were at Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands, awaiting Commander F. L. Martin who was still at Chignik, the last stopping-point on the American continent. They have travelled a few hundred miles less than MacLaren, but they have almost covered the worst part of their itinerary and will now head to milder, southern climes. MacLaren's worst troubles...