Word: worsting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Question: "Some of the Washington correspondents . . . voted you the worst man in the Senate. Do you agree with their opinion...
...which really molded his political character and now determines his every action on the international stage. Molotov threw in his lot with a little group who believed that by brains and ruthlessness and unity they could overthrow a society that other European revolutionaries watched with patient hope for the worst, but no determined plan of attack...
Each year Europe's forgotten million looked toward each approaching winter with the conviction that it would be the worst yet for them. They have usually been right. They might be right again this year...
...picture from the start. The potential comedy in a story about a maid with a yen for fixing plumbing and an over-frank manner in the presence of superiors gets stuck in an under brush of plot complications. Given this bad material to work with, Lubitsch has made the worst of it. He has miscast both Miss Jones and Boyer in light comedy parts, and his attempts at satirizing English high-life seem ponderous, especially when handled by Peter Lawford and Helen Walker. Add to this a further attempt at satire in the person of a priggish druggist which comes...
Said he last week: there are two ways of approaching a religious play. "Some say it should 'do good' to the audience, and I think most emphatically that that produces the worst kind of nauseatingly sentimental play. People hate to feel that they are having good done to them. . . .I believe you should write a religious play because you want to express the truth, and if you are a Christian, then the truth will be Christian truth...