Word: downtrodden
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WEAVING his heroic story against the grim tragic background of the Armenian sufferings at the hands of their diabolically cruel Turkish masters, Franz Werfel has evolved a novel which for richness of narrative detail and skillful completeness has few peers. The pitiful plight of this downtrodden Christian people reached its climax during the early years of the World War when the young Turks set their oriental cleverness to the organization of their nation as solidified national unit on the Western pattern...
Fortnight ago, Virginia's downtrodden Republicans met to choose an opponent for him. They considered a long time. They even tried to persuade onetime Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley to make the race. Dapper and dashing Republican Hurley claims Oklahoma as his political stamping ground but he has lived so long across the Potomac from his Washington law office that he is now eligible to become a Virginia voter. But neither Mr. Hurley nor any other Virginian worth a hoot would make the race. So the Republicans gave up. Mr. Byrd will go back to the Senate...
...notorious for two things: vice and thrift. Fifty men and women, butchers, grocers, seamstresses, shoemakers, came in the first night to deposit savings of $2,020 which later were kept in the bank's two tiny leather-covered chests. A mutual savings institution for the poor and downtrodden, Bowery Savings was heavy with the smell of Sunday School and the mission society...
...fact that there are always some people who must have something to gripe about was amply proven in yesterday's CRIMSON by the letter from the Mouthpiece of the Workers of America, The Champion of the Downtrodden Masses, or the Maryrs to the Cause of Pacifism, better known as the National Student League...
...found right in our own peppy little N. S. L., but just so the more skeptical readers of the CRIMSON may likewise have no doubts I suggest that the present membership of the N. S. L. apply on masse for a four year leave of absence to study the downtrodden German masses. Then when they get back they would have a brand new student body to convince, a student body which entertains no memories of diverting little assemblages in front of Widener...