Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pray every morning for abolition of the Young Plan and the Treaty of Versailles-two Fascist platform planks. That Dr. Frick was forced out last week marked a Hitler defeat, but a defeat which should remove from public notice a Fascist so rabid and reckless as to be the worst advertisement his party...
...France, which is still predominantly agricultural . . . has so far avoided the worst of the present business depression...
...this were the worst sin of "Wide Open Town" it might have struggled by. After all, the average reader unassimilated to its background will not pause to distinguish between creativeness and photography. But the author has taken a cause, has attempted to find the Universal in a mining town. It may be there, but his efforts to prove "the torrent and ecstasy of life" are hopelessly inadequate. The love of John Donnelly, a raw Irish miner, for Zola, an alluring if somewhat incongruous prostitute, forms what plot and motivation there is. With a painstaking that is almost embarrassing. Mr. Brinig...
...very second I laid down my hat and coat, a cold sweat such as I had never known in my life before broke out all over my body-the physical reaction which naturally followed the unutterable psychic strain. And then for the first time I knew that the worst hour of my life lay behind...
...killed in action. She is temporarily suspected of being a spy. Farrell is therefore accused of having, in moments of intimacy, given information to an enemy agent. Emotional tensity is emphasized by dropping articles on the floor: a champagne glass, later a revolver. Presently Pom-Pom is vindicated. Worst shot: a group of flyers teasing Farrell when they find him writing a letter to his girl. The vogue of Greta Garbo has been such that no important company considers itself to have a quorum of talent without one blonde actress capable of narrowing her eyelids inscrutably and talking alto. Elissa...