Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passengers, has had one nasty accident. A year ago last week one of its planes vanished in the snowswept Andes with seven passengers, two pilots. No trace of it has been found. Two other lives have been lost, both unnecessarily. On two occasions a Pan-American flying boat in distress alighted on water and, while the occupants were being rescued by another craft, one passenger dropped into...
...Adam, did you ever hear of original contributions in the Digest?" Dr. Wagnalls: "Never before, Isaac.") ¶ Clean typography. ¶ Staff-written articles based on newspaper news. ¶ A Washington letter signed "Diogenes." ¶ Sport and cinema reviews, specially written and signed. ¶ Good old Digest pleasantries. ("Beauties in distress," was what the Digest called some unemployed women at an emergency relief camp.) If Drs. Funk & Wagnalls had suspected the newsdealer was playing a joke on them, they might have hurried to the Digest office and seen copies of this week's issue which sported no cover photograph...
...Toscanini, like other Bayreuth performers, takes no pay for conducting at the festivals. His appearances there assure the festival's financial as well as its artistic success. Toscanini's friends knew that refusing to go to Bayreuth seemed to him almost like betraying Wagner, that in his distress over the whole situation he was past feeling such thrusts as the one last week published in the Berlin Vossische Zeitung: "The great musician, with incorruptible ears ever mistrustfully and pedantically intent on the last sixteenth note, has heard out of the mighty orchestra that is Germany only the discordant...
Your excellent article appearing in today's issue (May 22) refers to his golf game. One day I was taking a shower following a game over the Druid Hill's Course in Atlanta and "Brother Gene" sauntered in after a very distressing round in the high go's, but typical of his rebound from distress, he turned on his shower and with that wonderful smile of his, said, "Well-there's one thing certain-I can take as good a bath as any member of this club...
...James Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of Great Britain and First Lord of the Treasury, let himself go limp and restful as he and the President viewed and reviewed the economic distress of the world, tried to bring into common focus War Debts, armaments, tariff barriers, trade restrictions, silver, currency. On it Edouard Herriot, France's chunky special envoy who quickly tires of standing, eased his short legs while he discussed his country's need for political security with a U. S. President whose good French made M. Herriot blush for his bad Eng- lish. On it sat large...