Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lindley draws a picture of the distress produced among small wage earners by bank failures which shows that he is aware of the breakdown of the economic system, but the refuses to admit that the breakdown is the result of any inherent inadequacy in the system in the face of modern technology and the growing complexity of world economy. Socialism he dismisses with an exclamation mark and a "God forbid." Socialism is very possibly not the right solution, but it can hardly be rejected off-hand without so much as the suggestion of an alternative solution...
...early part of 1930, after it was known that Mr. Wardman was in financial distress, some of the real estate men of Washington tried to interest me in the purchase of some of the Wardman properties, but I did not even go into the details of the matter-I told them I had been greatly distressed to learn that Mr. Wardman was in difficulties and I had been told if he could raise a million dollars he could clear up his situation. I told them that I thought that Mr. Wardman had done more than any other man to build...
...before. She has a more full-bodied role than in Thunder Below, Tarnished Lady, My Sin and The Devil and The Deep, and a better leading man (Robert Montgomery). Otherwise, the picture is in the Bankhead tradition, a solemn sexual mumbo-mumbo of wealth impoverished and beauty in distress...
Were it not for his native store of that urbanity which knows no frantic distress, no crying in the wilderness nor whining in the prior, the Vagabond would be sore at heart. He comes from his annual scuffle with the defenders of that most unaccountable of God's creatures, the Boston debutante. And of course his eloquence has been vain in the face of adamantine prejudice. The Vagabond, however, would not have his wisdom lost to humanity and he here sets down for the Ages the choicest of his thoughts...
...government has ever yet been devised that could make the people prosperous all the time. . . . The present economic distress is worldwide . . . was brought about by forces no government could foresee and prevent...