Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston Evening American" with Mayor Russell as lead off man gave various citizens an opportunity to brand the ill-advised drawing with the telling marks of their disapproval. The Reverend Mr. Duval has attempted to stop the smoking mouth of Lampy with the dictum that the cartoon is "the worst insult ever perpetrated by a college publication against womanhood." William Randolph Hearst, tycoon of the "American" and one time Lampoon editor did not choose to comment. It only remains for the Boston press to hand out their ever ready award of bibs and lollypops...
Mankind's three most implacable enemies are Heart Disease, Pneumonia, Cancer. And the most baffling of these is Cancer, which is rapidly overtaking the other two for the rank of World's Worst Disease. Mankind's war of defense on Cancer has only recently begun. Last week was marked by five notable maneuvers in that...
Typhus fever, not to be confused with typhoid fever which is considered well under control at the present time, has been one of the worst pestilences in all history. It attacks, for the most part, populations weakened by famine, or that do not practice correct sanitation. In 1922 at the height of the Volga famine in Russia, it took more than a million lives...
...defeat and ruin every day, every hour. . Enemies of "Papa" Joffre say with cutting sarcasm that, "his greatest attribute as a commander was calm." Calmly he flung this division to certain death, calmly he learned that another had broken through, calmly he received the best news and the worst. Whenever the panicky politicians in Paris telephoned him, the sound of his voice and what he said was always reassuring. It is for that that "the people" are still grateful. They feel that without Joffre in 1914 they might have gone mad. Of the victory at the Marne, Marshal Joffre said...
...recently accepted a cabinet post as Minister of War, was therefore ineligible under the Guatemalan Constitution. The U. S. State Department was in a tight place. After the revolution in Brazil (TIME, Nov. 3), and now for the second time in three months, it had picked the wrong horse. Worst of all, having recognized Acting President Palma, it was duty-bound not to recognize Acting President Orellana. In 1923 Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes endorsed a Central American agreement which mutually barred recognition of any Central American government which came into existence through a coup d'etat. Only...