Word: beset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disorder of its management, the dependence upon speculative real-estate dealers which hampers it in its purchases of land, the costliness of its methods, the exorbitant rates of its financing, the obstructive tactics of its labor, the complication and stupidity of the building code and taxing laws which beset it." In measuring how far the housing industry has lagged behind the Industrial Revolution, FORTUNE found that whereas the $5,000 automobile of 1911 now sells for $2,000, the $20.000 house of 1911 still sells for $40,000. Pointing out the frontier still to be crossed, FORTUNE concluded that...
...troublous times like these, with the undergraduate beset on one hand with his own scholastic woes, both present and in the near future, and with those of his family and the falling market on the other, a little light divertissement is well in order. Such is to be found at the Metropolitan this week, where Ruth Chatterton holds forth in "The Rich Are Always With Us," (an optimistic title, forsooth), and where La Montemegro and others provide a far better than usual stage show...
Business & Pleasure (Fox). Though he is head of a large company and hard beset by industrial difficulties, the Earl Tinker who is the hero of this picture must not be confused with the Edward Tinker who is president of Fox Film Corp. It would be libelous to suggest that Edward Tinker has mobile lips, like a mule's, a wiggling weather-beaten nose, and so little knowledge of how to behave that he would annoy his fellow passengers on a transatlantic liner by hooting low ballads in the ship's bar and chuckling at their...
...resurrected from the grave and placed in peonage by villainous masters. With one of these voodooistic overlords a family of white planters comes in contact, thus giving Zombie its motivation. For the most part wretchedly acted (including the work of Miss Pauline Starke, deep-voiced onetime film actress) and beset with deplorably written dialog, Zombie has at least four authentic shudders for your spine...
...Booth Had Missed? Playwright Arthur Goodman has chosen to imagine that a Negro porter knocked up John Wilkes Booth's arm just as he entered the Ford's Theatre box to shoot Abraham Lincoln.? Thereafter Honest Abe is beset by venomous political intrigue, chief movers in which are club-footed Thaddeus Stevens, treacherous Secretary of War Stanton and complacently egotistical Ulysses Simpson Grant...