Word: badness
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...This lady is my wife.' "They make believe they slap me and finally Stiglin took me out in the hall. He said, 'You fool, why didn't you admit it right away?' I said, 'Well, I don't want to get in bad.' He said, 'Well, never mind. We have got a clear case. Just go ahead and make the admission in front of the girl.' " Another hold-up game practiced by members of the New York Police Department: arresting men on charges of "annoying women in the subway"; hustling them...
...went to Washington full of ambition and high ideals. Poor, unmarried, a farmer, he had lived a progressive but black-&-white life, and as a Congressman expected to do the same on a grander scale. In Washington he was seen with the wrong people, got off to a bad start. His ambition found little outlet on the Committee on the Disposition of Useless Executive Papers. Then he met Senator Miller's wife, beautiful, socially powerful, a teaser. Congressman Carson had left a girl behind in Wisconsin: more worldly-wise than he, Irma Schmultz (for such was her plain name...
...exceedingly nauseous to the taste. Director Doran said that alcotate's aroma is not unlike "spoiled eggs and garlic." One newshawk took a sip of it, made faces, said he thought it tasted like a compound of ether and benzine. Remarked Chemist Doran: "It's not as bad as some of the stuff you've been drinking...
...branch of Bank of United States and asked officials to buy his stock in the institution. They told him to keep it, that it was a good investment. He misunderstood, and by late afternoon a good-sized run had developed. Police kept clamorous depositors in line. The bad news spread to other branches...
...institution to have much cash on hand. Another is that new bond financing for eleven months this year was $5,300,000,000 against $3,671,000,000 all last year, that bond digestion is clogged. Said the venerable, owl-wise Commercial & Financial Chronicle last week: "It is bad enough to see stock prices going all tx> smash, but when bond prices follow the same destructive course, there is reason for the gravest apprehension...