Word: beset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with sincere regret that the Vagabond once more is forced to comment upon the dehabilitating effects of hot weather. Spring fever usually arrives the last week in April and departs promptly on May Day, but this year things have been different. Spring fever has beset the Vagabond with a vengeance, and at present the ailment has announced no definite date of departure...
...hymnlike way at the finish. During the flight a baritone radios all ships to watch out for him. A bass solo, with the smoothest music in the cantata, urges him to sleep. The chorus takes turns representing the S. S. Empress of Scotland, the fog and ice which beset Lindbergh during the night, the optimism of Americans, the pessimism of the French due to their recent loss of Nungesser, the jubilation when the plane is sighted over Le Bourget flying field...
...problems of "War Guilt" that beset other historians did not exist for Marshal Foch. So far as he was concerned Prussia started the War in a spirit of commercial greed. The entire subject is dismissed in three pages. At the same time he blandly admits that from 1885 to 1915 he was preparing for the coming struggle, visiting France's allies, preparing plans of attack and defense. His leave in Brittany was suddenly cut short one week before Germany delivered her ultimatum to Belgium. In the same way the political problems of the War itself did not concern him. Politicians...
Pawnbrokers, Usurers. Although many pawnbrokers operate legally, in this division a tremendous undercover business is done at shockingly high rates. The average borrower is a wage-earner, usually a railroad or factory man. From the time he leaves work he is beset by usurers in person and in advertisements. Salary-purchasers claim they do not lend money, but pay $50 for a $55 pay check soon due. Unscrupulous pawnbrokers lend at the highest legal rate and then sell the borrower $1 worth of merchandise for $10, thus augmenting their fees. On a $50 loan usurers may extract interest payments...
...Western Air Express have learned. Moreover, operation of the transcontinental & western route has not proved profitable because it is not yet flown by night, hence does not receive a large share of transcontinental mail. For that reason, but principally because of the general difficulties that have beset most airlines, Western Air Express has run somewhat short of funds. Last week it raised between $750,000 and $1,000,000 by selling 50,000 shares of its stock to General Aviation Corp., aviation subsidiary of General Motors Corp...