Word: worst
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frail, aged Englishman had his play, Young England, produced. The critics voted it the worst show that had opened in London in 20 years: nobody gave it three nights. It ran, to packed houses, for over a year...
London's bright boys just had to see what the worst show in 20 years looked like. They screamed with laughter at its superpatriotic goings-on, involving gallant officers, dastardly villains, prostitutes, Boy Scouts, Girl Guides, taints of illegitimacy, stolen papers, stolen cash, the Union Jack. They went back for more, and their friends went with them. .Soon it became quite as chic to go (preferably halfcocked) to Young England as to the opera. At first the audience merely ad-libbed, then (as they came to know the play virtually by heart) they started beating the actors to their...
...Harry Hershfield, Manhattan cartoonist (Abie the Agent), went Charter No. 1 and chairmanship of the New York City chapter of the Grouch Club of America. Grouch Hershfield obligingly posed for news photographers, put his worst face forward...
...wonderful improvement has taken place ... regarding the practice of spitting on floors and sidewalks and in vehicles. Only those who have seen this improvement could believe it possible to influence the public in personal behaviour in so short a time. Transferring a cold to another person is the worst of bad manners...
...tall, big-jawed, witty bachelor, Philippe Heriat considers himself to have been one of the three worst students in his school. The other two: French...