Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Worst of the attitudes taken against American expressions of change and progress is that of a cheap, sensational press, of which the Boston American, especially because of its play-up of Granville Hicks, seems to be a hideous example. To increase its profits and effect the destructive editorial policy of a medievalist, the Hearst papers distort and lie about liberal activities to an audience unfortunately always ready to be deceived and aroused...
...soldier was awarded a medal of the Purple Heart on special recommendation of General Pershing. Wally returned to the quiet of suburban Drexel Hill, Pa., where he carried on as official cartoonist of the American Legion. This week the scattered staff of The Stars and Stripes prepared for the worst as Wally's daily and Sunday comic strip, "Hoosegow Herman," began to appear in 22 U. S. daily papers, nine Sunday papers through the McNaught Syndicate. Herman, created in Wally's own image, will soon find himself in the army meeting his old comrades, among them Ross...
...Ford Madox Ford, "an old man mad about writing," prefers his classical diet served with French sauce ("the Mediterranean as against the Nordic tradition"); his main concern is with "fine"' writing, literary form. Lively, rambling, witty, he is at his best in picking out single quotations; at his worst when he strays beyond "pure" literature, as when he declares Dostoyevsky to be "the greatest single influence on the world of today...
BONG! went the New York Stock Exchange 10 o'clock opening bell one day last week. What looked like the worst break of the year promptly began. By radio and ticker came the gloomy words of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain before the House of Commons. To the market they brought a tide of liquidation. Prices cracked as much as three points, blocks as big as 6,000 shares were dumped. At 10:28, came the word that Hitler had agreed to a four-power conference. The tide turned. During the next hour buying orders for 700,000 shares jammed...
...much as a rainy climate helps rheumatism. The Pennsylvania Railroad's passenger revenues fell 14% below August 1937, the New York Central's 17%, Baltimore & Ohio's 19.5%, the New York, New Haven & Hartford's 3%. All told, August was the Eastern railroads' worst month for passenger revenues this year...