Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...typesetter in a publishing house. He is keen-witted, clear-skinned, sound as a nut. His "ideal" old age is probably due less to good family history, sensible diet and abstinence from alcohol and tobacco than to the fact that Seth Lincoln has never experienced deep sorrow or financial distress, never worries about anything.-Drs. Francis G. Benedict of Carnegie Institution and Howard Frank Root of New England Deaconess Hospital...
...function as a progressive educational unit the University Film Foundation has suffered a gradual financial decline which brought it this year to the point of cessation. Fortunately the University has averted immediate death of the organization by taking it over as a subsidiary and alleviating its financial distress. This move was, however, accompanied by a declaration that the distributive work of the Foundation would be cut to the minimum and active production of films completely stopped...
While the desperate father is on the verge of committing suicide, the other members of the family go about their varied affairs unheeding his distress. Fay Bainter, as the mother, is particularly good. Her acting leaves little to be desired, save perhaps by those who would rather watch homely emotions play over a more beautiful countenance. Her particular preoccupation is going to Hollywood to direct the picture which a book she had written, had inspired...
...other has appeared in Australia. The first plan is politically feasible for use in this country, it is economically unsound; and that although the second plan is economically sound, it is perhaps not practical in politics. Having stated that relatively little could be done to alleviate the economic distress in this country by the use of such plans as mentioned, Dr. Mason at the same time expressed the belief that we were emerging from the depression...
Fees. "The really big man in medicine has not gained distinction from high fees. Our really successful men have been small fee men. It is the little soul whose creed is greed who really charges the limit, no matter how seriously it may distress his patient."-Dr. Nathan Bristol Van Etten, vice speaker of the House of Delegates...