Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freedley's Anything Goes. Months before in France, the oldtime British libretto team of Guy Bolton and Pelham Grenville Wodehouse had written a comic script about a marine disaster. The Morro Castle tragedy instantly ruled it out as a subject for fun-making. Producer Freedley sent up a distress signal, got two able U. S. showmen, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, to re-do the whole job in three weeks...
...Joneses needed relief almost as much as the farmers, the bankers, and the unemployed when President Roosevelt entered the White House one rainy afternoon in March 1933. Within a few months Home Owners' Loan Corp. was established to furnish urban mortgage relief, issuing its bonds in exchange for distress mortgages. The mortgages were usually scaled down, payments were put off for a year or two, and cash advanced to clear up back taxes, make repairs...
Most of the clothes Annie gave to a friend in distress. A fur scarf she traded for whiskey. In six months, turning 71, she gave up her apple stand. In eight more she was dead...
...Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Ry. ("Big Four") instead of over Chicago & Eastern Illinois'. It had been doing business with C. & E. I. for half, a century, had run its crack Southern trains over the C. & E. I. route since 1904. But C. & E. I. is now in financial distress and reputedly has difficulty getting Pullman Co.'s best equipment for through sleeper service to Florida. Big Four, as a New York Central subsidiary, gets the very best. Both lines run from Chicago to Evansville, Ind. Big Four's better equipment and ability to bring in business were alone sufficient...
Members of this unofficial mission, to the distress of His Majesty's Government, have been spouting up & down Japan of late their ardent hope for a resumption of the pre-War Anglo-Japanese Alliance...