Word: distress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many days are required to restore Shiloh to his best blithe spirits and make of him an astonishingly tough and adept jack-tar. He is but little concerned for his bereft Mary, back in Italy, becoming passionately interested in David's account of a lovely maiden in distress in wilderness America. David's locket shows Silver Cross, twin sister of the man slain by David, to be of utmost virginal beauty. Ever the champion of such females, Shiloh sets off across the Appalachians afoot with good-hearted David, improvising odes to Nature, caroling Greek choruses, skimming the rugged...
Last week the U. S. Patent Office, making its annual report, signaled distress. It would have to have more employes, larger quarters, greater appropriations. The nation's inventive genius, or more accurately the national penchant for protecting inventive genius, had increased until there was a patent application filed for every thousandth inhabitant-110,000 in a year. The Office found itself with 58,000 applications still on the docket, despite its having cleared up 35,000 hangovers from the last three years. For the first time in history, the Office had felt obliged to rid itself of its vast...
...more character the better in the cast of the new play. Miss Tobin plays the part of the young woman in distress who happens in on a misogynists house party, and she plays it as if she were All Women, or Beauty in Distress, or some other such all embracing symbol. And Genevieve Tobin is not much good at symbolism. She is too much herself. It may be true that any women try to be all things to all men, but it takes no more than a Genevieve to prove that some of them fail...
...outbreak of the organized general strike was the gravest domestic event in my lifetime. If it had succeeded Parliamentary Government would have been at an end. It was an action of mine which made this a ground of controversy in the Liberal ranks and it was with as much distress as surprise that I found that my public declarations were met with a challenge from a quarter [the Lloyd Georgians] which it was impossible for me to disregard...
Ludendorff's Complaint. Unsettled by these developments, famed militarist-Fascist-reactionary General Erich von Ludendorff contributed an article to the ultra-Fascist Deutsche Wochenschau last week in which he bitterly declared: "The War-distress of Germans does not seem to have been sufficiently great, or to have lasted long enough. The German people do not seem to be clever enough as yet to arise and fulfill their destiny. There is spreading among Germans a spineless nonresistance to the Anglo-U. S. scheme for a pan-Dawes Europe in which Germany and perhaps France seem destined to the status...