Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turning out neat comic rhymes for his daily "Facetious Fragments." Yalemen who were in college just before the War remembered Stod King's brilliant undergraduate record, how he impressed people at first as a swart plain-spoken Westerner careless about clothes, how he joined Zeta Psi (next to worst of the five fraternities then in existence*), went on working his way to become managing editor of the News...
...Rumania and the Baltic states: All stood pledged to fight any move toward price raising by world monetary devaluation or inflation. Privately the German Delegates admitted that even Herr Hitler's popularity could not stand the storm which would burst should Germans, who suffered the world's worst inflation in 1923, feel they were due to suffer again...
Promptly Premier Tsaldaris professed "horror" that his worst enemy had been shot at. "I am sure," said he, "that the most exemplary punishment will be meted out to the culprits...
...wire, beckoned a boy to pedal down through the town and deliver it to Frau Winifred Wagner, the robust Englishwoman who guards the shrine of Composer Richard Wagner, her father-in-law whom she never knew. Frau Wagner had a feeling before she tore open the envelope that the worst had happened, that Arturo Toscanini had decided not to come to Bayreuth this summer to conduct at the Wagner Festival. Over and over she read the telegram which Toscanini had sent from Florence. "The lamentable events which have wounded my feelings both as man and as artist have...
...dialogue of "Zoo in Budapest" is not always happy, but at its worst, the action carries it off. The players also are adequate to the mood and tempo of the whole. But the real heroes, if you must have them, are the animals, and after the animals, the photographer...