Word: distressingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Audiences Curtailed. However, the sultriness of Vatican City has caused His Holiness increasing physical distress. Last week, against his inclination, he at last heeded his counsellors, decided to curtail public audiences until autumn. For the balance of the hot season he will alternate receptions with one or two days of rest...
...comfortably and successfully on Raymond Poincaré's prostate gland (TIME, Dec. 23), and from Milan an eminent German proctologist. It has been well known that His Holiness, like very many elderly men of immaculate habits, suffers from prostatic hypertrophy. The infirmity can become painful, can cause bladder distress, uremia. The specialists decided that there was at least no immediate necessity of prostatectomy, relieved him by catheterization, advised him to abstain from many papal obligations. Such advice His Holiness, a man of indomitable will, of course disregarded for the nonce. Perhaps after the public investiture of his new cardinals...
...exist in the Federal Reserve system, a bull last week clad himself in a bearskin. It was no less a bull than William Crapo Durant who said: "With regret I make the prediction that we see next winter business conditions unimproved, longer breadlines, more soup kitchens, continued uneasiness and distress a more pronounced tendency to Social and Communism?this regardless of assurance from Washington that every thing is all right...
...these are but two of the many involved points that cloud the question. The suggestions of both of these men would do much, however, to aid the present distress if they were sincerely accepted. Here again it is obvious that both the college and the secondary school must cooperate if any definite benefit is to be attained. Once more the question resolves itself not to what must be do no but how. The answer lies with the preparatory school and college authorities and the solution awaits their willingness to act in cooperation...
Through the press last week flowed two contradictory currents of news on industrial unemployment. One current ran uphill to large headlines proclaiming a quick return to Prosperity. The other ran down- hill to accounts of breadlines and jobless distress. Behind headlines for prosperity was sound Republican politics to minimize and gloss over unemployment. Behind breadlines for the jobless was equally sound Democratic politics to blame the party in power for a serious labor slump...