Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course of showing the process by which this Utopia is achieved, he predicts devastating wars for the 1940's, complete breakdown of all trade in the sixties, the consequent reduction of all peoples to a semi-savage state, and the rescue of the populations from this distress by aviators and technicians, who, like the Hanseatic merchants, rule by control of communication, and civilize to maintain and improve their own position, that is Mr. Well's concern. He has license to provide the most startling phantasy...
...sudden disaster nor abrupt boom followed. Cause of the arrested fall was guesswork. Some attributed it to talk of the formation of a $50,000,000 to $75,000,000 pool (President Peter B. Carey of the Board of Trade admitted a pool had been discussed) to buy up "distress grain" which threatened the market-the holdings of speculators caught in the July break. Others attributed the fall to the price peg, its arrest to removal of the peg. For, they argued, with the peg in there had been no free market, realistic grain traders had withdrawn from the market...
...York Times cabled a dispatch which the Soviet censors would scarcely have passed: "Except in the largest cities and the most important industrial centres the food supply has been reduced below what are generally regarded as the minimum requirements, and even in the favored localities there has been much distress. The almost inevitable consequence has been an increased death rate from such maladies as typhus, dysentery, dropsy and various infantile disorders...
...Lord Tilbury, looking down, saw that a portion of her afternoon meal, in the shape of an appetizing potato, had been dislodged from the main convert and had rolled out of bounds. It was this that was causing the silver medalist's distress and despondency. Like all prize pigs who take their career seriously, Empress of Blandings hated to miss anything that might be eaten and converted into firm flesh...
...Rowley), has a daughter, smokes pipes, loves golf, plays bridge by ear. Other books: Leave It to Psmith, The Inimitable Jeeves* Summer Lightning, Big Money. With Guy Bolton, Jerome Kern. George Grossmith and Ian Hay he has done more than two dozen stage comedies among .them A Damsel in Distress, Baa, Baa Black Sheep, Kissing Time...