Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Amid the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the emergence of Czechoslovakia, the Bat'a firm weathered strenuous post-War depression and came at last into deadly cutthroat competition with the old hand-shoemaker class. One day Shoeman Bat'a cut his prices 50%. Soon hunger-haunted shoemakers paraded through Prague, displaying placards: Bat'a Shoes are Paper Shoes! Shoemaker mobs became ugly...
...match in which Kozeluh beat Richards last week was not characterized by that tense, almost insane hunger for points with which amateurs excite galleries and rattle their linesmen. Both men seemed to be enjoying their game; Kozeluh would explain "Bed lock!" to the gallery when Richards dropped a volley. His game was distinctively that of a professional; he carried his racquet awkwardly at his side, played from the base-line with, a long follow-through and a short backswing, ran for nothing which he could not get and got practically everything he tried for. His returns were never purely defensive...
...Moon. The producers of elaborate musical comedies or operettas have now come to the conclusion that what the public wants is no longer "sex," but adventure and romance. No one knows how the producers have been able to detect this curious hunger; but they have not been slow in satisfying it. Hither is the present trend of Ziggy; the Shubert show, White Lilacs, makes a valentine out of a vulgar though exciting episode. In The New Moon, Schwab and Mandel, from the cheers and collegiate stomping of Good News, have turned to New Orleans before the French Revolution...
...freshmen at Harvard, the freshmen at the University of Wisconsin, or most other freshmen in the U. S., something might happen to these freshmen that would change their minds. Reading about the bright city on whose finest temple an owl perched, like a symbol of tragic and sagacious hunger, they might, in some strange way, grow to know something more about Milwaukee or St. Paul. They would perhaps laugh at Aristophanes instead of shouting his silliest lines to a football team; Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus might teach them something about how men may be forlorn and heroes. They, like Herodotus...
...their daughter. Out of sheer indifference he allows himself to be seduced by the daughter, whom he marries because he has got her with child. Irritated by these human complications, he escapes to the last island, a mere pile of rocks in the North. He finds solitude at last; hunger and blockades of snow. In a frenzy of lonely remorse he staggers to the icebound shore, but sees not a sail...