Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wylers' 19th Century oil fortune. It is the property of old Mrs. Wyler, her flighty daughter Leonie (Ina Claire) and her granddaughter Paula. Since old Mrs. Wyler belongs to the timocratic generation, and was once a friend of the elder Rockefellers, the money causes her no psychological distress. But it comes close to preventing Paula from winning a conscientious young radical from Amherst. And it nearly gets Leonie involved in a degrading alliance with an unscrupulous psychiatrist who professes to be of the same breed as the "marauders" who amassed the Wyler fortune and hence the proper custodian...
...achieving its purpose of relieving distress among the unemployed by giving them useful work of a public character to do, the Works Progress Administration is a definite success, stated Victor Ridder, director...
...Government, through the Third International, were pouring some $2,000,000 into British strikers' funds and Labor leaders in London were publicly exclaiming: "Thank God for Moscow!" With tension extreme, Edward of Wales created a national sensation by dispatching his personal check for $50 to the Somerset Miners Distress Fund with this letter signed by his Comptroller...
...Royal Highness necessarily cannot take sides in any dispute, but we all owe a debt to the miners in the past, and everyone must feel sympathy for the wives and children in these hours of distress. Besides it would not be a satisfactory end to any dispute that one side should be forced to give in on account of the suffering of their dependencies. His Royal Highness is confident that with good will on both sides there will be a happy issue out of the present difficulties...
After 48 hours of scopolamine, Drs. Klingmann & Everts stop its effects by using the antagonistic drug, pilocarpine which stimulates sweating and salivary and pancreatic secretions. After five doses of pilocarpine the patient "is mentally clear in every respect," and cannot recall any physical or mental distress. He has no desire for morphine, but has a healthy appetite. After six to eight weeks of body buildup, helped along by small doses of scopolamine and big doses of mental hygiene, patients are cured. Most stay cured...