Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gets the conviction from reading film advertisements that few of the film men who wrote them actually saw the pictures. If they did, they are the worst writers I ever saw. It is bad advertising practice to write about something you know nothing about...
...find issues of a century or more ago in good condition. As he passes the 18705, when woodpulp began to replace costly rag paper, the pages turn yellow and brittle. Papers of the Spanish American War period will crumble at a touch, for then pulp print was at its worst. Later volumes are in fairly good state of preservation but they, too, will gradually disintegrate with...
...Walter Thuman. Said the newsman to Zooman Thuman: "What most annoys you here?'' Zooman Thuman to the newsman: "Balls are what I fear." Mourned Keeper Thuman: "Footballs, baseballs, tennis balls, golf balls, ping-pong balls, billiard balls, marbles-they're all bad for elephants. But the worst are those ordinary rubber balls that children bounce. They bounce them near the cages. The elephants gulp them down. Then they get sick." A hard rubber ball, said he, killed a hippopotamus in the Cincinnati zoo. nearly killed one in New York. It took two weeks of nursing to save...
...finds herself leading a solitary hotel life on the Riviera. Two lovers, Jean and May, live at the same hotel; Renée against her will is drawn into the triangle. She runs away; Jean abandons May, follows her. Renee is older than than he is, thinks the worst of him, realizes that she is vulnerable, doubts if he is, but she lets him have his way. When they return to Paris she goes to live with him. Her recapture is so complete that from her point of view the inconclusive conclusion is satisfactory. Their affair has weathered storms...
...which escapes us, each time Spectator or any other college newspaper publishes an editorial which finds its way into the columns of the nations press, accusations of publicity seeking, sensationalism, and insincerity immediately bombard the editor or editors responsible. While Spectator's experience in this regard has been the worst example of such criticism in recent years, there have been numerous cases of similar trend, the most recent being that of the New York University Daily News in its attack on the football coach now reigning at that institution--an attack for which its editor is now being assailed with...