Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meal he flipped open a box and drew forth as royal presents for the President two lion skins and a photograph of his father-in-law in a gold frame. (President Hoover had sent the Emperor his autographed photograph for a coronation gift.) The meal that followed was a difficult one. President Roosevelt's stomach was still bothering him. The Ras, a Coptic Christian, could eat no meat, milk or butter that day. Mrs. Henry Nesbit, White Housekeeper, served clams, fish, three vegetables, fruit salad, water biscuits, pineapple ice. The Prince passed up the clams. Next day was Emperor...
...article entitled ''Vacation's End," TIME, July 10, did not mention through what means the President reached the quarterdeck of the U. S. S. Indianapolis, sometimes extremely difficult when in a seaway...
...customs had different logics. Egyptians believed that the preservation of a man's identity required the preservation of the entire body. Because the viscera were difficult to preserve in situ the Egyptians lifted them out, put the heart and lungs in one jar.† the liver and bladder in another, the stomach and large intestine in a third, the small intestines in a fourth jar, all of which rested in the tomb with the embalmed body...
...England he loves too well, abated not a whit. If there is less bile in All Men Are Enemies, if it seems a bit less malicious than the previous Aldington novels, it is because it is longer (574 pp.), less direct, padded. Author Aldington is finding it increasingly difficult to pick off the remaining bowling pins of pre-War cant and hypocrisy, having already sent the bulk of them crashing oft the alley...
...Another Tribune comic, "Moon Mullins," last week made things exceptionally difficult for parents who must explain the "funnies" to their children. Said small, tough "Kayo" Mullins: ". . . She called me a illiterate brat." Roared big, tough Moon Mullins: "She did, did she? Here, take your birth certificate over and show...