Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even the "Harvard CRIMSON". If luck is with her, she hits upon a suitable phrase from which she tries to evolve the universal idea of Radcliffe. Now, the body she is attempting to represent is, though not great, diverse. Therefore at the very outset she is in a dilemma--to say or not to say. If she chooses the better course, she merely compounds various facts and theories into a sort of non-opinionative hybrid, which might be dubbed editorial-written-under-necessity-of-writing-an editorial. If such an article is read at all, it may be quickly forgotten...
...American churches and chapels who so largely brought about Prohibition find themselves on the horns of a terrible dilemma. Or, rather, they would be so finding themselves if they had any conscience in the matter...
...surgeon intimately in the distant past, and having met him again is hoping to reform for his sake, but ready not to do so if this will benefit him more. Fortunately, Mr. Chang (Warner Oland) has behaved badly toward the Chinese trollop (Anna May Wong), who solves the dilemma by planting a dagger in his back...
...ideal vehicle for the cinema in general or for Ruth Chatterton in particular. Her performance, like that of Paul Lukas, as the doctor, and the late Robert Ames, as the husband, has a studied competence which leaves Tomorrow and Tomorrow the cold outline of a spurious dilemma instead of a tragedy in heroic compromise...
...Basle committee was in a dilemma. If they admitted the correctness of the Melchior statement they would give Germany an opening to prove that the country cannot even pay its private debts. If they admitted that the Melchior figures were exaggerated, France would almost certainly become uncompromising on Reparations payments...