Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until last week nobody considered "Jimmy" Walker a quitter. Even after he turned out to be the first Mayor of New York to resign under fire, hundreds of thousands of citizens refused to think the worst of him. Radio Crooner Morton Downey, Publisher Generoso Pope (Il Progresso-Italo-Americano) and Theatre Man Alfred Cleveland Blumenthal were among the first to rush to his flower-filled Mayfair apartment on Park Avenue where he was lolling around in blue silk pajamas and assure him that, even out of office, he was still "the greatest fellow on earth...
...actual work on it could not be ascertained last week) affects one-fifth of the population of the earth, but an actual electorate of only 36,000,000. It will not apply to the Indian native states, but to the nine provinces of British India. The worst knots in the problem of communal representation were untangled as follows...
...heavy mist in its wake. Sportsmen standing ankle-deep in the sticky peat of shooting butts had no sooner begun popping at dimly seen grouse than another storm broke and drove them home. But not before a gamekeeper had been shot dead at Clonmannon. Growled an expert: "The worst morning of the Twelfth known in the North for 20 years." The shooting season's inauspicious opening was not due to bad weather alone. U. S. lessors of Scottish estates were conspicuously few. John Pierpont Morgan was there, as were Tycoons Solomon Guggenheim, John W. Converse and Andrew Watson Armour...
...York City guidebooks explain that the Tombs, erected in 1838, "was the most perfect example of ancient Egyptian architecture outside of Egypt." Most of the original Tombs was razed. When the present prison (New York City's worst) was erected in 1898 it retained the old popular name though its architecture is totally unlike the Tombs...
...same way. Last week it was a leaner, graver man of 58 who accepted his second nomination a few blocks from the White House. Almost all his hair was grey now. In his shoulders was a perceptible droop of fatigue. Plain were the marks of three of the worst years any peacetime President has had to endure. Lawn Party. Before accepting the nomination, President Hoover gave a lawn party to 500 important G. O. Partisans at the White House. Guest of honor was 71-year-old Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Sr. who had had "a perfectly wonderful trip down...