Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with an amazing cynical sympathy which is one of the chief charms of the story; in consequence, he approaches the truth about the trio more nearly than anyone has to date, and at least as nearly as anyone ever will. He does not fail to show Bonfils in his worst lights: he reveals him as a crack-pot miser, who hides behind the ticket booth at his circus so that he will not have to admit his own daughter free; he shows the reader a stupid man, a crooked man, a bully, and a sorry figure. But the other side...
...Army men had had much bad-weather flying - an essential for regular mail transportation. Fewer still knew the perilous mountain routes they must follow through the thickest night without two-way radio. Even before the Army officially took over, the ousted operators were getting confirmations of their worst fears...
...assistant, he sorely upset Wisconsin's famed eccentric coach, Dr. Walter E. ("Little Doctor") Meanwell. Dr. Meanwell always suspected Iowa's Coach Barry, who came from Madison, Wis., of trafficking with spies on Wisconsin strategies. When Williams joined the Barry camp, Dr. Meanwell was convinced of the worst. But this season, when Dr. Meanwell was subjected to hot alumni fire for his team's poor showing, loyal "Rollie'' Williams wrote the Press in defense of his oldtime teacher...
...newshawks to wait two years to see if he could pull American Woolen out of the red before writing him up as a business hero worthy of the laurels of the Press. At the end of the second year the company's deficit was $7,269,000-the worst on record. Mr. Warner certainly did not look heroic to his stockholders. But last week, at the end of the third year, American Woolen announced its earnings for 1933. For the first time in six years it had made money-$7,053,000. And for the first time in seven...
Administering a thorough 38-33 drubbing to a powerful Big Green team, the Harvard Varsity natators left the Spaulding Pool Saturday night after breaking one pool record and giving the Dartmouth star and former Intercollegiate champion, Banfield, his worst beating in three years. Captain Ed Stowell was responsible for the broken record, turning in a time of 1 minute, 42 2-5 seconds for the backstroke, while George Scott and Roy Wallace edged out Banfield in the fifty, forcing him to take the only third he has had in intercollegiate competition...