Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their tragic, humiliating, unsuccessful attempt to give their companionship an emotional substance, when Gloria realizes that she loves him. It is typical of John O'Hara's humor, as well as a sign of his understanding of his people, that in the depths of his pity and distress Eddie can only murmur nonsensically, "The melancholy Dane has come, the saddest of the year...
Given another few years of economic distress, given another diabolically clever demagogue, given the Legion and the D.A.E., and given another few Teachers' Oath Bills-and the political liberties on which this country was founded will be shorn of their already rapidly diminishing meaning...
...Vagabond--being the sensitive soul that he is--has sickened of depressions.... nations in distress.... political speeches.... Italian forces (and barbers)--English diplomacy.... and even Haile Selassie's umbrella. His frail mind cannot encompass the full significance of one event before another is cried aloud in the market place. Today, therefore, he resorts to that old escape--one frowned upon by maladjusted psychologists--to barken to those gentle soul who "tell tales of little meaning, though the words are strong." As the world is thrusting itself forward to a dismal future the Vagabond is thrusting himself back upon an epic...
...Executive Board of the CRIMSON was called into extraordinary session immediately by the President and a committee appointed to investigate the matters referred to in the questionnaire accompanying the letter, and to frame suitable answers for the women in distress. Following is a transcript of the questionnaire with answers finally agreed upon by the committee...
...Wilson got their jobs anyway by running on the Democratic and Town Meeting (Fusion) ticket and the Republican machine went to pieces in dire defeat. This year WillB Hadley returned to the junk heap to pick up the fragments and take the Republican nomination for Mayor. To his distress he there found a deadly rival: S. Davis Wilson...