Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...departure: to write for the cinema. With him went his daughter Lenora ("Snorks") who some months prior had tactfully smuggled out from a party two newly-engaged guests who were giving themselves away in front of a concealed microphone (TIME, Mar. 3). Other Wodehouse items: A Damsel in Distress, Fish Preferred, The Inimitable Jeeves, Leave it to Psmith, Three Men and a Maid, Mr. Mulliner Speaking...
...Governors' conference will bolster the ineffectual efforts of the national administration in coping with this problem. The report of the conference on unemployment insurance will at least stimulate and focus attention on one phase of the situation that may prove to be the solution of much of the distress occasioned by unemployment...
...have before me a recent issue of a New-York newspaper. Its first three pages are largely devoted to signals of distress. More than a dozen headlines call attention to "business depression." "jobless," "the homeless...
...World War veterans in Detroit and Michigan believe that the immediate payment of the Adjusted Service Certificates is warranted. Many veterans and their families are in dire need and the cash they would receive from the government would certainly go into immediate circulation. This should help considerably in alleviating distress during this period of depression and, in the opinion of many, hasten the return of prosperity...
...principal functions is to assist exchanges in time of distress...