Word: discomfort
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offerings of a New England winter evening for more than an hour in order to secure gallery seats to the Symphony concerts in Sanders Theater. The spectacle has become as frequent as it is vexatious and unnecessary. The inevitable inconvenience discourages many from attending; for those oblivious to physical discomfort, the wait is galling in its futility. Moreover, when the crowd is finally admitted and allowed to stand in the vestibule for a half hour before the start of the concert, its impatience and indifference to smoking prohibitions create a disorder and fire hazard which are sufficient in themselves...
Fortnight ago it looked as if the Glass Bill might pass Congress without serious difficulty. Democrats stood solidly behind the little Virginian. Insurgents were for anything that would discomfort Wall Street. But that was before the big bankers of the land had read the bill's text, made their outraged feelings known to Washington. The Treasury scowled a scowl of disapproval; Governor Meyer of the Federal Reserve Board looked displeased. Last week it was clear that the Glass Bill was scheduled for a major operation-by-amendment...
...British Isles. The original buildings were erected in 1809 to confine the French prisoners from the Emperor's army. Later some of the Americans in the war of 1812 found there way to its barren courtyard. At that time Dartmoor established a reputation for cruelty and discomfort which is now almost legendary in its fame. In 1850 the building assumed its present status of a convict prison. With true British love for tradition it has sturdily maintained its original character...
...make the convicts remember that they are human. There is a wierd quiet that hangs over the place which is augmented only by the wierder call of the Tern. This is not an environment which lends itself to character building. The prison is of ancient design with all the discomfort and severity of the early Victorian period. Nothing is done to ease the burden of the penal existence...
...underplot in Sooky concerns Sooky's efforts to get into a juvenile club whose members wear uniforms and drill like soldiers. To do this, he learns how to play a bugle, marches with Skippy in a parade arranged to discomfort Skippy's father who is running for mayor. Presently, Sooky's mother dies; Sooky goes to live at Skippy's house. Given a soldier's uniform, he wears...