Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Exeter handed the Yardling squash team its worst defeat of the season Saturday on the Exeter courts, winning four out of the five matches...
...night for the bodies of the ten other members of the two ships' seven-man crews. Sadly next morning new CINCUS Claude Charles Bloch ordered the radio operators who were supposed to observe a war-time silence, to break it, announce to Washington and the world the worst airplane disaster in U. S. naval history...
Meanwhile, Toscanini broadcasts had become Manhattan's musical rage. Fourteen hundred of the musical and broadcasting elite, invited by an unfathomable system, have elbowed each other every week into the NBC auditorium for the privilege of hearing symphonic music under the worst possible acoustical conditions. For outsiders, a snob value has raised ticket scalpers' prices to $25 a pair. When Radio Comedian Fred Allen's scriptwriter recently penned the lines: Q. "What's the difference between me and Toscanini?" A. "He has long hair," art-conscious NBC officials censored the gag. Apparently there is a house...
...months ago St. Louis was one of the worst one-week stands in the U. S. But last fall 586 St. Louisans, from Mayor Bernard Francis Dickmann down, joined a subscription group, the Playgoers, guaranteed basic audiences for touring companies. By last week ten good plays had been royally received in St. Louis, eight more were coming. Showmen checked up, agreed that St. Louis had become the road's best host...
...community where queer behavior, tightfistedness, sadistic gossip and such were taken for granted, the Wikker family stood out. The scorching tongue of squat, black-eyed Widow Semiramis was matched by the stinginess of her frail, bullying sister Ann, who said when her husband died: 'Th' worst of it is I wasted a chicken on him yesterday." Rich Farmer Ezekiel Wikker was as mean as his sisters but added a manly lust and a thirst for hard liquor...