Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yesterday we spent the time answering our neighbor's questions as to whether we really and truly were serious about all this shorts business. We even had a calf-comparing contest in which we came out very much the worst but content that if we could wear this newest in men's style, most anyone else could also...
...While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have now passed the worst and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover. . . . We have for the first time attempted a great economic experiment. . . . We have undertaken to stabilize economic forces. . . . Our joint undertaking has succeeded to a remarkable degree. . . . We have succeeded in maintaining confidence and courage. . . . The acceleration of construction programs have been successful beyond our hopes. . . . The whole range of our experiences from this boom and slump should be placed under accurate examination with a view to broad determination of what...
With flunkeys in scarlet posted at portals blossoming with hydrangea, the annual Royal Academy exhibition opened last week in London's Burlington House. Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald and his daughter Ishbel were first to arrive, followed by hordes of British socialites. The best-dressed gentlemen and worst-dressed ladies in the world gathered in the galleries, talked very loudly, paid but scant attention to the pictures. Less notable people, among whom was a bland Chinaman with a topper and a green orchid, found a few exhibits to interest them...
...WORST JOURNEY IN THE WORLD- Apsley Cherry-Garrard-Dial...
...worst journey" Author Cherry-Garrard tells about was not Scott's fatal march, but a trip taken by himself and two others in search of eggs of the Emperor Penguin. It required five weeks of fearful hardship; when their tent blew away in a gale they thought they would die, almost gave up hope. But they got three eggs, brought them back safe and sound. Blurbs Playwright George Bernard Shaw: ". . . a very horrible experience. Compared with it Amundsen's victorious rush to the South Pole seems as cheerful as a trip to Margate...