Word: distressed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...actresses now playing in Boston will hold a benefit ball on Friday, December 5, at the Cambridge Armory, to which all members of the University are invited. The ball is part of a nationwide campaign to secure funds by other means than public subscription for the alleviation of distress among needy members of the profession...
...inevitably regain the upper hand, Austria will revive in courage, and as a corollary, the discontented elements in the allied nations will make use of this opportunity to embarrass their governments. The immediate future seems black indeed; only constructive statesmanship of the first order can counter the discouragement and distress. But if the justice and unselfishness of our cause is sufficiently felt, then defeat should serve as a stimulus to greater sacrifices, and eventual success. To give this message, not to Italy alone, but to Germany and Austria as well, is America's mission today...
...several years past Yale has been a better host and a kindlier visitor than Harvard; we have been the considerate half of all the parties--both those at New Haven and those at Cambridge. But frankly we are becoming weary of always making you happy, to our own distress and at our own cost. We feel that it is high time for you to be gracious to us instead of our being gracious to you. Surely our contention in this matter is only fair and right; we hope that this afternoon you will see fit to show actively your acquiescence...
...complete summary of the comedy can be made without at least mentioning the concise and intelligent, conceptions of their parts which Miss Harding, as Ethel Deane, an artist in distress, and Mr. Young, as Wilbur Jennings, an indigent poet, display...
Unmistakable signs of distress have appeared in the field events in the two track meets this spring. In the Yale meet Harvard had one competing entry in the high-jump to Yale's four, in the pole-vault three competing entries to Yale's five, and a similarly disgraceful showing in the shot-put. If a college of three thousand students can produce only seven men eligible to compete in three field events, there is a remedy needed somewhere...