Word: distresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Damsel in Distress (RKO Radio) sends Fred Astaire dancing into a foggy English countryside to rescue fair-haired, big-featured Joan Fontaine from the errant vagaries of a typical P. G. Wodehouse story. Not so lissome a heroine as light-footed Ginger Rogers (temporarily otherwise engaged), inexperienced Actress Fontaine (Olivia de Havilland's sister) goes gamely but somewhat lumberingly through the curvets and caracoles required of her. Far more facile as an Astaire partner is, of all people, rumpish Radio Dunce Gracie Allen, who with her harassed husband, George Burns, makes up the Astaire party...
When a frightened young woman (Olivia de Havilland) arrives with a fluttery story about a wrecked coach, Garrick accepts her as part of the plot, grandly surrenders his rooms to her. While he feigns concern for her safety and distress during the continued ructions, he decides she is a very bad actress. Later he tells her so, then beats the French at their own game, by impersonating one of their members. When he reveals himself there are mutual apologies and gallant toasts all round; but the girl has fled. In Paris he looks for her backstage, discovers that, sure enough...
Malaleel U. Smugly '93, whose experience and sage advice are both Justly notorious, continues his series of counsels to the undergraduate in distress. Send in YOUR problems and see what happens...
...buying pools to acquire gasoline from independent refiners at artificial prices; 2) selling gasoline to jobbers under long-term contracts in which price would be determined by the average of the spot market prices published in the Chicago Journal of Commerce and Platt's Oilgram; 3) taking "distress" (i.e., excess) gasoline off the market (TIME, Aug. 17, 1936). Result, according to the jury, was severe losses to jobbers and independents...
...while. A number of libraries have the foolish habit of cleaning dirty books, but it is a nasty job, involving an eraser and an elbow. Finally we do think that two weeks is more than long enough for a book to be charged out. We often weep at the distress of the student who finds Widener has a book, and indeed knows where it is, but can't get it for a month. A month is an con in an academic year...