Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last year, the publisher of one of the greatest offenders revolted. In an editorial entitled WHAT IS HAPPENING TO JUSTICE? Captain Joseph Medill Patterson of the News printed examples of the most offensive coverage of the Stretz trial he could find, admitted that "the News did the cleverest and worst," then denounced "the practice ... of trying murder cases beforehand in the newspapers. . . . The real issue is whether Miss Stretz . . . was guilty of murder. . . . But the defense attorney ... is trying also to paint the dead man as some kind of a sadist or other fiend-although he wasn't sadist...
...Worst air accident in Mexican history, the crack-up was the first mishap of any kind in the twelve-year career of Compania Mexicana de Aviaci...
...they considered a punitive tax and a fetter to a free press. Still in rebellious mood, the Boston Weekly News-Letter on Dec. 2, 1773 boldly addressed its readers with a call to arms against the British. "FRIENDS! BRETHREN! COUNTRYMEN!" shouted the News-Letter's, front page. "That worst of plagues, the detested TEA, shipped for this Port by the East-India Company, is now arrived in this Harbour; the Hour of Destruction or manly Opposition to the Machinations of Tyranny stares you in the Face...
During the worst of the Hitler war-fright the market looked as if it might take a bad tumble. Yet by last week it had regained composure, and prices were nearly back to the highs of the previous fortnight. To the first flood news last week the market was impervious, though later when it was realized that first-half earnings would have to be revised downward for the industrials, utilities and railroads affected, quotations began to soften. What the stockmarket will do next is anybody's guess. But what U. S. business will do for the next few months...
...chorus boys and girls deserve a special word. Closing Act I, probably the most acrobatic dance ever seen this side of the Mississippi River is called for in the script. Although everyone feared the worst, only one chorine's costume became disengaged...