Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mayfair there is a small, swift, hard-drinking clique who are the King's only real friends. Most of these people seem "American" to the circles in which Queen Mary and Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin respectively move - and to these worthies "American" is a revolting adjective. The worst feature of an appalling situation in their eyes last week was not that Mrs. Simpson has one divorce and is about to have another but that Mrs. Simpson was in fact born...
...could be ascertained, this was Apted's first venture into the political arena. Although political observers commented favorably on the fact that he managed to run even with Lemke and Browder, without much national organization, still his intimate advisors are known to have prepared him for the worst on the morning of November...
...believe that Princeton football crowds have been the worst offenders in the country and we are sure that President Dodds does not think so either. Nor do we believe that Princeton undergraduates are particularly more flagrant in their contradiction of good manners than any other student body. But we do believe that it is high time that somebody made the first move toward eradicating a situation "which seriously menaces the future of the sport as an intercollegiate activity". We are proud of the fact that Princeton is willing to bear the thankless burden of the pioneer. --The Princetonian
These premature reports created a genuine European scare because last week inside the British Foreign Office diplomats of 27 nations indulged in an unprecedented 7-½-hour brawl, conducted with a fury which made the worst believable...
Looking wise, local journalists wrote that tourists seldom learn of these cities' numerous resorts, mostly patronized by Canadians. Worst of Montreal Vice, opined local reporters, is the depression-bred habit of some impecunious high school girls, who earn pin money by stopping briefly after school in questionable houses, then go on home to their unsuspecting and respectable parents...