Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dozen had not left by last week. Gone were Karl von Weigand, Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker and Evelyn Waugh. The Ethiopians had cheated the pants off the correspondents as individuals and collectively mulcted the world's news and newsreel services to an extent which makes Ethiopia journalism's worst investment of all time...
...colony and urged his audience to learn the British example and 'carry the example of good government to all parts of China,' told Japanese interviewers, on his way to Tientsin, that he hated 'the Britishers' more than they hated him, that they were 'the worst lot imaginable.' and that they were 'a curse to China.' Borodin preceded him to Peking. Dr. Sun had hardly reached the northern port when two of his old followers publicly repudiated his leadership because of his subservience to Moscow...
...tennis has never progressed far outside the U. S. It has developed few players of its own, rarely shown signs of achieving a dignity beyond that of exhibition matches. O'Brien's tours draw their biggest crowds in the East, their most serious patrons in California. Their worst behaved galleries were in Iowa, where spectators were slow to learn that loud chatting and peanut shelling are not good manners at tennis matches. Never likely to rival either Tilden or Lenglen as a drawing card, Ethel Burkhardt Arnold is at least likely to amaze galleries by her size...
...habit of drinking, this is a poor time to learn," Mrs. MacGibbon advises. Other advice: When encountering the boss in a night club wait for him to make social advances. Always rise when introduced to the boss's wife at the office. "But perhaps the worst feminine fault," says Mrs. MacGibbon, "is talking too much...
...necessary to be a champion of Roosevelt to deplore such vicious attacks. At best you have produced an editorial which is certain to cause a great amount of comment. At worst you have produced an editorial which I, for one, would be ashamed to see reprinted in any other newspaper as representative of Harvard opinion or of the sort of education which Harvard gives...