Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...royal "floozy," Miss Dietrich changes her moods and mannerisms almost as frequently as willowy-necked Sam Jaffe (cast as Grand Duke Peter, her idiot husband) changes his mind. Worst shot: Marlene Dietrich clattering up the palace steps on a white horse...
...good word for everybody, seems to like even his own rogues. But most readers will have little sympathy with Captain Nicholas. He does not rise to the stature of a dark brooding Barry Lyndon. Neither is he a devil-may-care fellow who is his own worst enemy. Nor is he a gay, reckless, unscrupulous adventurer of the Gil Bias order. At best he is only a sawdust figure of a gentleman, at worst only a petty crook...
Close scrutiny of returns in the cities confirmed the fact of Hitler's magic in appealing to the rabble. In Catholic and aristocratic sections the vote fell off, but the worst local setback to Hitler was a victory of only 823 to 350, reported locally just outside Berlin. Five die-hard Berlin Reds wrote across their ballots THÄLMANN...
Again, Famine. Not up for action at the Generalissimo's conference was what a government spokesman blandly called "the worst drought which has smitten Central China in half a century, or perhaps in living memory...
Within a few minutes, it was clear to the world's markets that Mr. Callander's Board had confirmed the worst fears for U. S. Agriculture. The wheat fields were not quite so bare as private observers had calculated (TIME, Aug 6). But cotton-land had shrunk below the gloomiest private guesses. And the misadventures of corn were a sensation. In a month, 500,000,000 bu. of corn had disappeared from U. S. fields and the 1934 harvest was officially estimated as 1,600,000,000 bu. as against 2,300,000,000 bu. last year. The price...