Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fruit served must be cut and eaten on the premises, the waitresses have the added responsibility of seeing that no one slyly puts a grapefruit or two into his pocket, and then dashes out before the buxom valkyries of Unionhalla can catch him. This is an onerous and difficult task from which no one reaps any benefit...
...talk with Mr. Santayana it is as difficult to pigeon-hole him as a "type" as it is to pigeon-hole his philosophy. He's not an American, though he was educated there; he's not a Spaniard, though he was born one. He's more the ancient Greek somehow or other brought up in the 19th century England. Though he dislikes "the taste of academic straw" he's a scholar who zealously fools his work. He has the greatness of genius, and yet the common sense of one richly human. Like the ancients, he would make philosophy...
...than Ann Corio has claimed that the industry was "getting along nicely as long as Mr. Minsky kept his nose out of it". And secondly those who have risen in indignation to put a stop to the evil have spoken with a voice of authority that would have been difficult to deny. When the shepherd of the Catholic diocese of New York in the person of Cardinal Hayes lashes out in the attack, rash indeed would be the parishioner who opposed...
...chosen, heading a relatively small (72,015 circulation) newspaper, President Stahlman had a sampling at last week's convention of the major problems facing U. S. newspaper publishers: a threatened 1938 newsprint price rise of $7.50 a ton, 25% up in three years; an increasingly difficult taxation situation complicated by Social Security, particularly involving the use of boys to deliver and sell newspapers, and the prairiefire spread of the American Newspaper Guild...
...shall go down with her. Her sins have brought her fall. But this was just a slight sketch to let you know what can happen." Next day Father Divine was "tired." Over him hung not only the assault charge, which he and other Harlemites seemed to think would be difficult to make stick, but also charges against other members of his cult: that his coal truck drivers were dealing in bootleg coal; that a 13-year-old was being overworked in a Divine restaurant...