Search Details

Word: burdened (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Tearle) in the guise of a servant?bound by oath to her brother's service? for a term of years. Shortly thereafter comes the sinister Due de Tours (Wallace Beery) seeking her love. How she repulsed him and how the servant rescued her from his drunken embrace comprise the burden of the plot. There is abundant death and sword play. There is sentiment and spectacle. There is an absence of pretense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 20, 1923 | 8/20/1923 | See Source »

...opposite extreme of poor taste was exemplified by another Manhattan paper, The New York Call (Socialist) which assumed a tone not common even in the rabidly Democratic press: "HARDING, JOCKEYED TO TOP, DIED AT LOW EBB OF CAREER . . . GENIAL HANDSHAKER WRECKED BY BURDEN TOO HEAVY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Falsely Sentimental Fiction | 8/13/1923 | See Source »

...doubt ?and a calm man, and a man with a philosophy that has not worked out so badly, as will be shown. . . . "How much work does the President do? ... Rudolph Forster has been executive clerk at the White House since McKinley was President. . . . Forster says that the burden of work the President has to do now is five times greater than the Presidential work was in McKinley's days in the White House, and three times greater than during the time Roosevelt was President. And greater now than ever before, even during the War days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Journalist's Luck | 8/13/1923 | See Source »

...irreconcilable as ever. The chief burden of his speech was that entry into the World Court would be unwise and entry into the League of Nations unwise. Said he : " There's just one course to pursue, just one way to play our proud part, just one method to render real service . . . standing upon our own shores, remain the master of our destiny, the captain of our soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: One Course | 8/6/1923 | See Source »

...clearing all checks at par as far as possible. The tenacity with which the Southern bankers have clung to their collection charges for out-of-town exchange has provided most of the protest against the Reserve system below the Mason and Dixon line. Such charges have proved, however, a burden and a nuisance to American business, and sentiment in general is with the Reserve in its par collection campaign. Recently, the National Association of Credit Men, in its convention report, endorsed the stand taken upon this subject by the Reserve system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Par Collections | 6/25/1923 | See Source »

Previous | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | Next