Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Horse Trade. "If one wants to estimate the 'horse trade,' I should say M. Litvinoff has got perhaps a shade the worst of it," declared Muscovite Walter Duranty of the New York Times, "but. on the other hand, to vary the metaphor, Mr. Litvinoff is taking home a pretty fat turkey for Thanksgiving...
When asked about how he liked Boston audiences, Mr. Merivale said, "They are just about the same as any others. Possible a little less demonstrative, and a little more quietly appreciative. Audiences never vary much according to locality, except in Los Angeles. There are the worst audiences in the world. The only people out there who ever show any real appreciation of our work are a large group that have never seen a stage presentation before, and are frankly amazed at seeing a flesh and blood actor...
...live happily ever after, with no pangs of remorse. A model of devotion to the rest of the community are a planter and his half-sister who keeps house for him. When the planter marries, his sister kills herself; the community discovers they were living in incest. The worst white man on a little island attracts the attention of a withered spinster-missionary; to the amused amazement of everyone except the predatory virgin, she conquers him. The man-eating Russian wife of a Scottish scientist tries to get her claws on her husband's priggish young assistant; his heredity...
...worst comes true the political buccanneers will not be without their reply, their "mandate from the people," To any snivelled protests that may rise up there can always be answered, "Well, you suckers, you asked...
...husband can ever be well after having "sifllus." After completing the letter she moans, saying to herself: "I wish to Christ he hadn't got any kind of malady. I don't know why he had to get a malady." This is an example of Hemingway at his worst, the sort of thing that is generally associated with his imitators or with an elementary college composition course...