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Word: worsteds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crow is vermin of the worst kind. He destroys song, insectivorous and game birds. He demolishes poultry. He raids the nests of other birds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Crow | 5/5/1924 | See Source »

MacLaren-his worst troubles are yet to be. (P. 30.) The throwing out food, instruments, clothing-a disgraceful sight. (P. 28.) Loud-speaking Germans who want their colonies back. (P. 10.) Old Gutenberg's largest and blackest headline. (P. 26.) 1 A bare-legged party leader. (P. 10.) Skilled laborers working day and night to complete a jet black tomb. (P. 11.) An ignorant family. (P. 6.) An avalanche of foreign physicians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: May 5, 1924 | 5/5/1924 | See Source »

That college should find it desirable to test new ideas of staging, as well as to train playwrights, is somewhat of an Indictment against regular producers. In his recent book Oliver Sayler wrote to the American producer that: "At his worst he is without parallel for ignorance, incompetence. At his average, he is an excellent showman. The fact that experimentation is costly explains perhaps why until recent years very little departure was ever made from the usual manner of selecting and presenting plays. Even low the public is somewhat apathetic to innovations, as certain English producers discovered to their sorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STILL THE THING | 5/3/1924 | See Source »

...dies that in the ensuing months of treaty-making, political bickering and intrigue, there comes to him the conviction that no matter who won the War, it has in truth been lost, and with it the Peace. It is all waste? waste of blood, and treasure?and spirit, the worst waste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waste* | 4/28/1924 | See Source »

When Ramsay MacDonald desires to know the worst, he will read both papers, and being an intellectual liberal, will remember Voltaire's phrase: "I wholly disapprove of what you say, and will defend to the death your right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Duke Paper | 4/28/1924 | See Source »

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