Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thrill," much can, and should be done. Movies and novels have portrayed the criminal as a romantic figure, with the result that there is a tendency to admire and even envy him instead of despising him. It is this tendency which is responsible for many of our worst crimes, and the first step in any attempt to stop criminality should be a drive against the agencies behind it. There are, moreover, facilities at the disposal of a criminal which make a crime a rather simple affair. Machine guns, automatic pistols, armored cars, and swift means of escape from pursuers...
...fancy advertisement for the excitements of metropolitan nightlife. The Ninth Guest is civilized scarecrow drama, handsome, improbable and exciting. Worst shot: a butler fumbling with a block of ice to provide comic relief...
...Saved to the end of a red-tape program which had obviously bored him, to prevent the audience from melting away, Professor Hudson had benignantly fulfilled the League's hopes telling the assemblage that the institution which they imitate is a going concern, certain to be preserved through its worst crises by megalomaniac and frightened small nations...
Professor Glueck complained that one of the worst faults of present local administration was that it was likely to fall into the hands of political spoilsmen. The remedy of this situation he sees as the establishment of an informal, professionally staffed, citizens' committee, to represent the people, which would check up on the various law-enforcing agencies...
...England to its knees, knotted its icy grip on New York and New Jersey and jolted the entire Southeast. One swept up from Cape Hatteras, the other from the Rio Grande. Meteorologically separate, they will be associated in popular memory as a single catastrophe, with the title of "the worst since...