Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sensible little pig. Other animated cartoons present portents cataclysmic as the Wolf's house-flattening puffing, physical violence as severe as the heroic bartering Donald Duck undergoes in Modern Inventions. But whereas Popeye's inevitable fight at the finale is almost inevitably cruel, grotesque and ugly, the worst beating ever handed out in a Disney film-the "pacifying" the big wolf gets in Three Little Wolves-somehow manages to be as charming, as delightfully inventive, as it is deserved...
...Dearest Frankie: "Thanks for your reply to our letter. It confirmed our worst fears about you. "... We note that you say labor is 'under control' in your city. Knowing something about your methods of operation we're not surprised that you think it is. You've gotten away so long with profitable conniving between your machine and corporate industrial and financial interests that you can't imagine your 'control' ever coming...
...blotted out the lights of the village, stalled the train. Without a second's warning the mile-a-minute Edinburgh-Glasgow express following the local crashed into it. Rescuers, lighted by bonfires made of debris from shattered wooden coaches, took out 91 injured, 35 dead-Britain's worst rail-road disaster in two decades...
...story of the birth rate, says Dr. Thorndike, is "short but very bitter." The average number of children per family in good cities is 3.3, in poorer ones, 4.8. "Most of the rising generation is being brought up in the worst communities...
...screaming traffic that approached from a million different directions at once. To the Mexican driver, the horn is far more important than the brake, and the velocity and direction of his vehicle depend solely on the whim of the man at the wheel. If Rhode Island motorists are the worst in the world, Mexicans are far and away the most idiosyncratic...