Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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National Biscuit made $9,986,000 in 1935 compared to $11,597,000 in 1934. This was the worst year since 1923 for the world's largest biscuit company, which also makes candy, peanut butter, macaroni, ice cream cones and Shredded Wheat. National Biscuit's earnings have declined every year since their 1930 peak of $22,879,000. Processing taxes and increased competition from independents were major causes of last year's profit decline. The taxes increased manufacturing costs and the competition held down biscuit prices. National Biscuit got back some $1,000,000 of impounded processing...
...lamps and windshield.* Someone tore off the rear license plate and dashed it through a window at M. Blum, the splintered glass cutting his neck to the jugular vein. Dragging the Socialist Leader out bleeding and gasping, the young Royalists seemed about to do their worst when four Paris policemen shouldered through the throng to restore order. They carried Leon Blum to the nearby headquarters of the Catholic Women's League, where improvised bandages were wrapped around his neck...
...foundries at this moment is too aggressive, too strident, to be overlooked with a pitying smile. These bronze rowdies whoop and vociferate on all sides. I recently heard a witty artist friend size up the situation in this wise: 'After the Civil War they did the worst they knew how; today we have become more skillful and we are able to do much worse...
...England's worst depression, beginning five years ago, had brought a second General Strike and had upped the Fascist National Volunteers to the most powerful armed body in the State. An impotent Labor Government, despairingly voted into office, has just been swept out again on a flood of financial panic and bewildered rioting, and the National Volunteers have hoisted Dictator Frank Hillier into the saddle. At the head of a pasteboard National State Party, with Parliament dissolved and a yes-man Council as his catspaws, Hillier rules England. Royalty has apparently vanished at last. There is no opposition. There...
...stories are only mildly, Kay Boyle's bitterly, alive. A theatrical, rococo writer, Showman Hecht spreads hokum and verbiage with a lavish hand. Most effective in this swollen vein when he writes about the greasepaint dramatics of Broadway or the alcoholic hilarities of fabulous newshawks, at his middling worst he seems a dim shadow of O. Henry or Edgar Allan Poe. Best story in the book (Snowfall in Childhood) stands out like Shirley Temple on the stage of the Grand Guignol: a simply written reminiscence of first love. Some others...