Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wanted complication. Then, against his will (he had no judgment) he found himself taking her seriously. Incapable of fidelity at his best, he went through all the contortions of betrayal, attempting even the wife of a best friend. A simplicist would say that Jo was his-own-worst enemy. His sadistic self-torturings finally landed him in a pretty mess: still completely married, practically sure he was in love with Tillie, he made dishonorable proposals of marriage to two other women. As luck and the author would have it, Tillie's old lover turned up at this point...
Everyone knew that the year 1930 would prove a sorry one for U. S. civil aviation. Clarence Marshall Young, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, forecast it "the worst that commercial aeronautics has ever experienced." But he added gratefully, "the gold paint has at last been erased" (TIME, Aug. 18). Last week the first official proofs of his statement were given out by the Department of Commerce in a preliminary report of 1930 production. From the 1929 overproduction of 5,357 civil aircraft, the 1930 output fell to less than half-2,514. Military planes, practically all built to contract-order, upped...
...know that your breadlines are the worst kind of dole?except apple selling!" she shot at reporters. When they mumbled a weak defense "Wee Ellen" interrupted...
...Standing sponsors were such people as smartchart Editor Frank Crowninshield, Art Critic Henry McBride, Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr., Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Adolph Lewisohn. An elaborate illustrated catalog was prepared. The show was a decided success. Apart from the fact that the first Pascin exhibition contained some of his worst pictures, the second most of his best, between the two shows the artist himself suddenly and horribly committed suicide. To the general public he is already becoming a Character, classed with Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, Modigliani, Van Gogh, and Lord Byron, among the rips, rakes, and naughty fellows...
Prophecy. "It is not impossible to set a date for the beginning of the business recovery. I think that we are approximately at the worst of the Depression and that the next important move will be upward. ... I expect conditions at the end of 1931 to be a good deal better than they...