Word: worth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME is not "Curt, Clear, Complete" when it uses the word "pretty" in describing Senator D. Worth Clark, the junior Senator from Idaho. There is nothing in the reference to Senator Clark in your March 13 issue that called for any such adjective...
...Economy might be worth trying if there were any guarantee that business would soak up the fresh unemployment resulting from cessation of Government spending. "I doubt, however," said the President, "whether this would meet with popular approval if it were tried and the results were not attained." Then he added that he guessed that he had said "a mouthful." (See below...
Franklin Roosevelt's kin often get themselves into the newspapers. One who did so last week was the President's lusty second son, Elliott, who runs his second wife's radio station (KFJZ) at Fort Worth, and knows which side of his bread bears Texas butter. In one of his semiweekly personal broadcasts he said: "John Garner is in the driver's seat right now, well in the lead as a likely Democratic candidate for the Presidency...
...details of the plan are concerned, Wild pointed out that while some of the cross-field concentrations are jumbled and hypothetical at present, a few of the groups of study, such as the classical tradition field, really present something of worth to the student
Author Zweig's characters are often stiff, symbolic, vague, even dull. But their melo dramatic personal histories make Beware of Pity worth reading...