Word: distress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hurling a shower of large mangel-wurzels (cow beets) on the stage, the students cried: "This is an insult to economic distress in Croatia!" "Long live Croatian culture!" "Down with such vulgarity...
...Peace Conference, his hopes, his mistakes, his achievements, his compromises and his disasters are worthy of something better than the Hollywood setting with which we are provided. The President is represented as a stainless Sir Galahad championing the superior ideals of the American people and brought to infinite distress by contact with the awful depravity of Europe and its statesmen. Mr. Baker's film story is, in short, the oldest in the world. It is nothing less and nothing more than the conflict between good and evil, between spiritual conceptions and material appetites, between generosity and greed, between moral...
...love with the preacher. The preacher was a married man; Emily Dickinson put him out of her life and then turned poet. Rebel against the Puritanism of her day (1830-86) she could hardly have made the sacrifice from prudishness. But perhaps it was from gentle reluctance to distress the preacher's wife, and her own family. Or perhaps it was a mystic self-denial that gave her the dream of perfection instead of the disappointing inadequacies of fulfillment. This is the solution implied by many of her poems...
...slip a foothold, or lose his ice-axe, while making every honest effort to climb, it would be fate, and not cowardly suicide. Perched perilously on a vertical boulder of ice, exhausted, he is on the verge of loosening hand and toe grip when he hears a call of distress from above. In such a crisis a Montague man can do only one thing-keep on climbing...
...control business activities better than has been done heretofore, the problem of general unemployment will arise again acutely as it did in 1921, 1908, and other periods of business depression. Heretofore resort has been had to soup kitchens, special commissions and conferences, and much talk, which continued until the distress had been relieved by changes in economic conditions...