Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Davis feels that President Harding is the worst advertiser in the country and therefore that nobody knows of his great work. He proposes that an office of Administration Publicity be established to broadcast with trumpet blares what the President is so reticent in telling. There will be a hierarchy of advertising agents, speakers and political salesmen, in fact all the machinery of commercial selling, including "popitalks". The party in power will peddle its wares to the nation while the nation pays the overhead...
...second report. It was stated that many firms were paid for goods that were never delivered, that some bills were paid twice, that many companies never repaid capital loaned by the State. In all, the committee estimated that many million lire are owed to the country. One of the worst offenders, according to the report, is the Ansaldo Company of Genoa, which owes the State 89,000,000 lire for shipping charges...
...Norris is hard-pressed during the period of creation. He fights for the right word. Mrs. Norris, on the other hand, says that the enjoys every moment of putting pencil to paper. At her best Kathleen Norris can present a fine, moving, startlingly real picture of life. At her worst she becomes caught in describing the minutiae of daily routine. A blue pencil would greatly have improved Certain People of Importance. Possibly Mrs. Norris knows this now. She is working, in addition to her usually generous output of short novels and short stories, on a new long novel. It will...
Icebergs in the North Atlantic-worst since...
...forthcoming production of the world's possibly worst opera...