Word: distressfully
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...will, in the long run, bring about that back-swing of the pendulum which came in the French revolution with the fall of the Jacobins, and which has come in all revolutions when the first period of disorder has calmed down. Furthermore, the main cause of Bolshevism is economic distress, and the lifting of the blockade will remove that cause. A people which does not lack the essentials of life tends toward conservation. In the second place, the new policy will remove the most effective tool which the Red leaders have used to prevent a general uprising against their regime...
...actresses now playing in Boston will hold a benefit ball on Friday, December 5, at the Cambridge Armory, to which all members of the University are invited. The ball is part of a nationwide campaign to secure funds by other means than public subscription for the alleviation of distress among needy members of the profession...
...inevitably regain the upper hand, Austria will revive in courage, and as a corollary, the discontented elements in the allied nations will make use of this opportunity to embarrass their governments. The immediate future seems black indeed; only constructive statesmanship of the first order can counter the discouragement and distress. But if the justice and unselfishness of our cause is sufficiently felt, then defeat should serve as a stimulus to greater sacrifices, and eventual success. To give this message, not to Italy alone, but to Germany and Austria as well, is America's mission today...
...several years past Yale has been a better host and a kindlier visitor than Harvard; we have been the considerate half of all the parties--both those at New Haven and those at Cambridge. But frankly we are becoming weary of always making you happy, to our own distress and at our own cost. We feel that it is high time for you to be gracious to us instead of our being gracious to you. Surely our contention in this matter is only fair and right; we hope that this afternoon you will see fit to show actively your acquiescence...
...complete summary of the comedy can be made without at least mentioning the concise and intelligent, conceptions of their parts which Miss Harding, as Ethel Deane, an artist in distress, and Mr. Young, as Wilbur Jennings, an indigent poet, display...