Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...valet, who is responsible for the entire action; Adelyn Bushnell plays a screen struck girl who is madly in love with the hero, Garrison Page (in his latest picture, "Huckleberry Harry, the Heartbreaker"). Miss Bushnell and Jill Middleton have an extremely humorous crying dialogue, Hero, maidens in distress, villyuns, a blackmail plot, suspicion,--it was an elegant evening...
...Philippines; the financial difficulties of Governor McCray of Indiana; the Klan in Oklahoma; the Berkeley, Cal., fire; Mayor Hylan's illness; Magnus Johnson's speeches; the arrival of Lloyd George on American soil; the application for permission to disinter the body of James Oglethorpe; the farmers' distress; the annual convention of the A. F. of L.; Governor Pinchot's speech at Washington on prohibition...
...Five years ago the fighting ceased and men looked forward to a better world that has not come. Instead we see confusion and distress, ill-will and suffering; peoples still blinded and staggered by the smoke, and scorched by the embers, of the vast conflagration that swept across the earth. This might have been foreseen, for moral effort, when at an end, gives way to moral lassitude; and to hold the spirit on a lofty plane amid the sordid cares of peace is harder than in the actress of war. To do so we must keep our thoughts in tune...
...same paper (The News of the World) is printing a daily article " by one of his former companions in distress." Respectable papers (like The Times) protest: " There is an end to all prison discipline if every prisoner is allowed to carry on the profession of journalism from his cell. . . . Are these indulgences extended to every prisoner with a literary turn...
...There has been a general impression", he continued, "that the topsy-turvy, wild condition of the finances of Germany indicates a reduction of the people to the lowest state of want, privation, and distress. This is not at all true, as there is every evidence upon all sides of great industrial activity and prosperity...