Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Mary MacSwiney, sister of the late Terence MacSwiney, is daring the immigration officials to eject her from the country, threatening that if such an attempt is made she will go on hunger strike. There is an obvious and sensible retort for such a declaration that has evidently not occurred to the immigration authorities at New York...
Perhaps the authorities fear that the sentimental reaction that most hunger strikes engender among hoi polloi will harm their party were they to let Miss MacSwiney carry out her harmless threat. Unquestionably the public watches with awe and apprehension the lengthening days of the hunger strike, lending the victims a gradually increasing support of maudlin sympathy. Since the days of Pre-war Suffragettes in England, the hunger strike has become the last resort of persons who could not attain their ends by any other method...
PROCESSIONAL-The last week of this peculiar experiment in expressionism. Murder, hunger and rape set to a strange jazz rhythm...
...Union of German Churches, seeking the means to reduce the large number of weekly suicides in Germany, discovered from statistics that love and money (not hunger) are the causes of most suicides, that 32% of the total are committed on Mondays...
...ballad is being written of cold, of hunger, of a great lust for gold. The scene is New Mexico; the characters are the same daring, credulous, foolish, get rich-quickers who have strewed tin cans, romance, and their own bones on every trail from civilization to gold field since the days of '49. Gold Dust is the new town and the howling desert is its back yard. All the old setting is there: wild rumors, pokes filled with precious dust, a mad scramble for claims, tents, grimy men, and tired women. The automobile is the one touch of the twentieth...