Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days things had been going from bad to worse with Major Charles St. John Rowlandson of London. He had debts that must be paid at once. On a �50,000 life insurance policy, relic of a happier day, he had already borrowed nearly �7,000. And, worst of all, his policy would lapse entirely unless he could rake and scrape together �1,500 to pay an overdue premium by 3 o'clock one afternoon last fortnight...
...your issue of July 30, p. n, in speaking of Postmaster General Farley you state: "And Mr. Farley is neither the worst of sinners nor is he without the right faith." It is certainly pleasant reading for the Catholics to know that you brand their faith as the "right" one; not quite so pleasing to the Protestants, perhaps, who are attempting to live clean lives in this vale of tears. It is certainly too bad that TIME has relegated them to a place other than Heaven by reason of their possessing, in all innocence, the "wrong" faith. Shades of Washington...
TIME does not presume to designate the "right" faith. Let careless Reader Jones reread what TIME said: "According to the tenets of his church, confessed sinners, even the worst of them, who have the right faith in their hearts, have a better chance of getting to Heaven than Pharisees. And Mr. Farley is neither the worst of sinners nor is he without the right faith...
...well give the myth a wider circulation. Dickens' sideline was social sympathy; Author Priestley's English Journey, a lengthy digression into the economic back streets of his country, shows the same individualist concern over poverty and ugliness, the same little-English confidence that character will muddle through the worst economic mess...
...week from Chicago's morgue to Mooresville, Ind. There it was dressed in a light suit, fitted into a $165 coffin, and taken to his sister's bungalow outside Indianapolis. During the night 2,500 mourners filed past all that was left of the year's worst killer...