Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Quentin, she copied portraits in the illustrated magazines of French generals and statesmen. Back in Nottingham at the Art School, she was barred from life classes because they were open only to men, was put to drawing from plaster casts. The local burghers invariably called her worst pictures masterpieces, tried to get her to do their portraits. Self-supporting in Nottingham, she gave private art lessons, got a few small commissions, finally a scholarship. Her ally through these hard years was a young man several years ahead of her in the Nottingham Art School, as poor and as able...
Presumably the worst nightmare a Sears catalog man can have is that a Ward man has learned in advance how much Sears is charging for votive candles or alfalfa forks and has underbid Sears by a few cents. To guard against such peeking, at the Chicago printing plant of R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. (The Lakeside Press), which shares this enormous order with W. F. Hall Printing Co.. the production space allotted to Ward and that to Sears are as carefully separated and shielded from each other as girls' and boys' dormitories in a State University...
...Worst frost I've ever known," replied Sailor MacFarlane. Then he learned that his friend referred not to the lack of reception, but to the fact that San Francisco had been demolished by earthquake and fire day before...
Vigdis fled with the baby, fell in with robbers, found protection at Olav's Christian court. To Ljot she said: "May you have the worst of deaths-and live long and miserably-you and all you hold dear. And may you see your children die most wretchedly before your eyes...
...story as that of "a number of attempts to achieve liberty." The central character's life, Huxley says, shows "how easy it is for a man, by nature gentle, sensitive and without consuming passions, to be betrayed by weakness and evasion into disgraceful acts pregnant with the worst consequences." Eye-fass in Gaza is written in a choppy, experimental fashion which seems designed to take some of the curse of banality off this sober theme. It is divided into 54 episodes, each episode dated, but the dates related in an emotional rather than chronological pattern. Thus the first episode...