Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shore of Lake Superior, cut off from the world by a dense forest, stands Marquette prison, strong, grim, forbidding. In it are confined Michigan's worst criminals?bandits, kidnappers, murderers?for Michigan has no death penalty. Few of them can hope for an early release; many have no hope of ever being allowed to go free. Marquette is a home of desperate...
...drunken and unscrupulous libertine who, while performing ably as "professor"' in a sporting house, receives a splendid tip from a producer whose identity Hollywood sophisticates claim to know. The heroines of Queer People are insistently immoral and the scene of their depravities seems to combine the worst features of Sodom and Gomorrah. The uproar of Hollywood's bigwigs at the book's publication was trifling compared to the one which greeted the subsequent announcement, by 26-year-old Producer Howard Hughes (Hell...
...print a manifesto against the referendum on its front page, in large type, without comment. This high-handed order won a lot of votes for the extremists. Even moderate editors sympathizing with Chancellor Bruning's problems considered it an unwarranted attack on the liberty of the Press. Worst of all. it brought a growling protest from Germany's Hero, old Paul von Hindenburg...
...iron production in July was 1,463,220 tons. This not only broke the previous Depression low of 1,665,692 tons in December but was the worst month since November 1921 when production was 1,415,000 tons. Pig iron production for the first seven months was 40% below last year. The end of July found 82 stacks in blast, or 26.1% of the total, against 91 at the end of June, 144 at the end of July...
...Worst of all . . . the church with a craving for a modernistic creed, the passion for creating a new Christianity...