Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Domestic Situation. "The community has cooperated to meet the needs of honest distress . . . [and] cushion the violence of liquidation in industry and commerce. . . . Our citizens have given a magnificent display of unity and action, initiative and patriotism. . . . Committees are now active at practically every point of unemployment. They have been assured the funds necessary which will meet the situation. . . . The Federal Farm Board secured higher prices to the farmer than would have been obtained otherwise. . . . The failure of a large number of farmers and of country banks was averted. . . . The time is ripe for forward action to expedite our recovery...
Said Lady Nancy Langhorne Aston "I never even let my husband know what money I have. It is a great distress to me that my bankers should know. ... I like to have a little in my heart that nobody knows about." Few days later Lady Astor, a native Virginian, allowed the Press to learn that she had telephoned from London a pledge of $200 to the Community Chest Fund of Richmond...
...Anniversary Meetings in which the greatest of Harvard's graduates brought new and vital thoughts to the University; the establishment in 1785 of a library for the use of the Society; the foundation in 1797 of a fund "to relieve those members of our brotherhood, whom fortune may distress, to accomodate those who may wish for assistance, and in general, to extend the advantages which result from a connection with PBK." From the year 1831, the best of these early creations of the chapter were retained, and a new, more mature point of view was added...
During this prolonged period of financial stress, the press has done much to keep the public informed concerning the trend of affairs, too much. Front page stories detail bank failures, unemployment, and other indications of industrial distress. While the known value of such stories in good, there is doubtful benefit for the general morale. The financially depressed public is hurried deeper into mental despair by such emphasis on its woos. It in becoming tired of being aroused by journalistic cries of wolf at each false down of prosperity...
...ocean liner tells the captain that there are four hidden stowaways on board. "How do you know there are four?" asks the captain. "They are singing 'Sweet Adeline,' " says the mate. Routed from the barrels in which they have secreted themselves, the Marx Brothers undertake to distress the other passengers. Harpo, on a kiddy-car, slides about the deck with evil looks for all. He captures and becomes the friend of a frog, which he keeps in his hat. He carries a cane which has a horn at one end, for no reason. Chased by the mate...