Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brennan must have sighed a little in distress when Al Smith was driven off to catch a train back home, having made a speech, but not the speech that was to set the west wild...
...adherents later that evening, fortifying themselves against the dampness and their own depression in the various bars and blind tigers of middle Manhattan, "when he meets this ham Berlenbach. . ." It was fashionable to finish the sentence with a flow of Elizabethan verbiage, accompanied by gestures illustrating the physical distress which would afflict The Astoria Assassin when subjected to violence on the part of Slattery...
...first indication that the ship was in trouble. Commander John Rogers on the seaplane had reported to Naval listeners that headwinds had forced him to open his throttles in order to keep his headway?that his petrol tanks were consequently emptying too fast. This message of distress was regarded as distinctly alarming. It meant that the Frenchmen would retain for a while longer the non-stop flight record. Why, it might actually means that the Rogers and his men were in danger...
...wandered through the Bois de Boulogne, where lovers are wont to prowl. But the lovers had fled far away leaving the Bois empty, save for gendarmes. Three days Zizi spent in the park while the man who had first wooed her from the Malayan jungle, wrung his hands in distress. Then one morning she left the park to visit a boys' school. The master spied her, called gendarmes. She fled into a lavatory, jumped out of a window, but the gendarmes pursued her with bullets and she died in a ditch. The leopard hunter who had brought...
...certainly has no desire for the development of European economic life on the basis of high tariff. Germany, however, cannot go the way of general tariff reduction or even the entire removal of tariff barriers which perhaps alone would be sufficient to afford relief from the world's distress, as long as other countries which confront us with far greater economic and political power maintain a decided system of protective tariffs...