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Word: distressingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some 50 miles off the coast of French Guiana one day last week the steamer Lorraine Cross met a tiny, two-masted tub lolloping along under sail with a distress signal flying. When the master of the Lorraine Cross asked what was wrong, the four men on the little tub's deck shouted back that she was the Margaret Harold bound from London to Trinidad via Gibraltar, that they were completely out of food and fuel. The Lorraine Cross's captain observed that the ship's name had been painted out. He asked to see her papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Again, Girl Pat | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

cists enters the novel. Mary's husband, turning from a conservative to a radical under the pressure of economic distress, gets into a dispute over the tithe, barricades his house, digs a trench to prevent the tithe-collector from taking away his stock. Shots are fired, mysterious figures slink through the fog, the fascists camp on the farm to protect it from the police. During this imbroglio, Mary's high-minded lover is pushed off a wagon by a policeman. This dislodges two pieces of shrapnel left in his brain since the War, with the result that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unpredictable Lute | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

Bitterly attacking the Roosevelt administration's handling of the relief problem, Steiwer said, "The Republican party will not turn its back on these in distress, but it will make sure that public funds voted to feed hungry months will be used for that purpose and will not be employed for the enrichment of political straphangers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Convention Delegate Visages Steiwer as Vice - Presidential Nominee | 6/10/1936 | See Source »

...Nellie Tipton Muench, acquitted last autumn of having helped kidnap Dr. Isaac Dee Kelly in St. Louis in 1931. That trial had been featured by the arrival in Mrs. Muench's home of a baby, which she called "a gift from God in my time of distress." Wealthy, Socialite Dr. Marsh Pitzman of St. Louis, who once shared offices with Mrs. Muench's physician husband, certified the baby was hers. The conspiracy charge was brought when the child was later proved to be a servant girl's bastard (TIME, Dec. 16). In court last week Dr. Pitzman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 20, 1936 | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

...Germany has regained her honor," concluded Adolf Hitler. ''Germany has refound her faith, conquered the greatest economic distress and finally inaugurated a new cultural advance! This I believe I am entitled to state before my conscience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bludgeons & Cookies | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

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