Word: anguish
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...last week an atmosphere of almost World War tenseness, anguish and sacrifice was spreading through China and Japan. The "Liberty Loan'^of $150,000,000 asked by the Nanking Government was well on its way over the top last week as the first official Chinese announcement said, $71.250,000 had already been subscribed. Tokyo was warming up for "Nationalspirit Mobilization Week" during which radio appeals and mass meetings all over Japan must soon sell $57,660,000 worth of 3½% "China Incident Bonds" redeemable in eleven years...
...groans and cries of anguish...
...during the last Republican Administration was bushy, grey Charles Michelson. oldtime newshawk who became National Committee Publicity Director in 1929 while Jim Farley was still a boxing commissioner. So effectively did he bulls-eye his arrows, after dipping them in pure vitriol, that gasping Old Guardsmen cried out in anguish against Charley Michelson's "Smear Hoover" campaign. When the New Dealers rode into power he was called in to explain them to the country. He smoothed press relations during the Bank Holiday. He wrote speeches trying to sell NRA. In fact, he was supposed to write all the good...
...death was not discovered for some 14 hours. Ship's doctors found it inadvisable to embalm the body and the captain called upon Catholic priests aboard to officiate at a sea burial. Subsequently four cousins sued the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique (French Line) for $100,000 for their mental anguish resulting from Miss Ahearn's body not having been committed to hallowed ground in a Catholic cemetery. Last week a jury in a Federal court in Manhattan, to which the French Line had had the case transferred from a State court, refused any damages to the cousins after Catholic...
...agony of the hot tears that blister his fevered cheeks as he nightly kisses the parched lips and looks upon the famine-pinched faces of his children, as they go supperless to their bed of straw! Who can tell the anguish of his heart when the wife of his bosom bends over him with her pale, earnest face, and, as she wipes the fever-drops from his brow, with the sublime energy of woman's endurance, whispers resignation, hope! . . . How different would be the condition of such a person, if, in the days of his health and strength...