Word: burden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...face- rose from his chair and walked uncertainly out of a courthouse in Indiana. He did not know quite where to go, but anyway he could not go back now-not to Logansport. Alice Meeks, his wedded wife, had just divorced him. She complained that she found him a burden to her; she had kept him for a long time. Now he could go. She needed a man to work her farm. . . . The judge agreed with...
...some zealous, but unwise friends, who were mainly responsible for the nasty situations which developed after his election, and that he, in line with his conduct all through life, would not squeal on them in order to save himself, and these friends were not courageous enough to take the burden on their own shoulders...
...McRae) who has ordered the hero-son out of the house for having loved the wrong girl, for having composed popular songs. The parent then falls in love with the girl himself, proving that the hero was right. On Fay Bainter's arch pouting and ogling rests the burden of entertaining the audience through three word-puffed acts. The burden is too great, even though shared by Mr. McRae, famed fascinator...
...Nobel Prize for literature to its brilliant and caustic creator. Mr. Shaw makes no attempt to conceal the fact that he is pleased at being the recipient of the honor, perhaps realizing that even though it might be considered as merely an additional title and therefore an additional burden. There is a material compensation...
Owing to the tremendous burden which will be placed on the traffic fore in the vicinity of Soldiers Field today, Boston and Cambridge police officials have combined with the Harvard authorities in issuing special regulations to take care of the situation...