Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...found hardly anything worth bombing. When we appeared over Scapa Flow, we found it deserted. The entire British Fleet had fled from the harbor to west English ports or more distant points.* We had to be content with an attack on the Iron Duke in order not to return home without having carried out any actions...
...Tsurumi, who can write 14,000 Japanese characters by hand in one day and can talk English faster than the late Floyd Gibbons could. The Institute was probably one of the chief catalytics last September in the appointment as Foreign Minister of Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura. Such an outfit is worth listening to. It said...
...Mede is another man's Persian" or (of a college girl who eloped) "She put the heart before the course." So are his retorts discourteous. When Adolph Zukor, then president of Paramount, offered Kaufman $30,000 for movie rights on a play, Kaufman, who thought the rights worth much more, replied: "I guess not. But I'll tell you what I'll do-I'll give you $40,000 for Paramount." So are his crazy cracks. A high-pressure salesman trying to sell Kaufman some goldmine stock spieled dramatically: "You can shovel the gold right...
...Burtt in the hand is worth two in the Budzianowski," countered the Sage. "With Torbie Hanlon the ball, it'll be a cinch for the Crimson. And that's not sheer Flaherty...
Just how much can a man take? Just how long can a man compromise with his ideals before he rears up on his launches and starts shooting? Those are questions of extraordinary vitality in a world which seems to contain no ideals worth shooting or dying for. Maxwell Anderson apparently believes there still are a few left. To prove it he has written a play called "Key Largo" which tells the saga of a young idealist who broke with his faith to live,--and returned...