Word: moiling
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...melodramatic moil of cinema is a strange background for Helen Chandler. A fragile blonde, she gained stage fame as a wistful tragedienne (Hedwig in The Wild Duck; Ophelia in Hamlet; Marguerite in Faust}. Her story of her life...
Word of her arrival was kept from Brother Bramwell at first. Physicians who had cared for him for two years, ill with nervous collapse and enfeebled by his 72 strenuous years, said he could not stand the shock. But finally, fearing lest the moil and ferment at international headquarters should come in some more violent manner to his ears, his wife and his daughter, Commissioner Catherine Booth, gently informed...
...within the buildings of the neighborhood grey-faced clerks squealed instructions at each other; boys with skins like cellar-grown mushrooms pattered to and fro; nervous bookkeepers scratched names of stocks and bond issues along blue cross lines, drew pothooks down between red and green lines. Theirs was the moil of days, nights* and holidays caused by 3 and 4 million share days...
Amid Homeric moil and treachery the city of Shanghai changed hands, last week, falling to China's best detested War Lord, Chang Tsung-chang, called "Chang of Shantung...
Thus Bernard Mead, timber magnate of Pauquette, Wis. There comes a day when, surrounded by his female relatives, including his spinster aunts, querulous mother, prolific wife and lusty offspring, he begins talking wildly of "seeing through" the eternal moil of creatures struggling to exist, acquire, mate and reproduce. He "sees through" to the essential, motile miracle of living?or something like that; neither he nor Miss Gale can quite express it. His wife sends for an alienist. He rushes off to Alia Locksley, the waiting one, hoping she will understand his prodigious discovery. But she is only sex-hungry...