Word: ordeal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some weeks ago the superstitious peasantry of the village of Zikliev endeavored to determine whether one M. Vchov and one Mme. Petrova had committed certain petty thefts by forcing them to undergo a "trial by ordeal...
...Corps, Coast Guard, Public Health Service, Coast and Geodetic Survey, patriotic organizations and plain citizens to the number of 3,130.* Secretary of Labor and Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Hoover and Mrs. Sargent were the only members of the Cabinet circle not present. In slightly more than three hours the ordeal of the President and his lady was past...
Twenty-two have survived the initial ordeal, but further caps are expected at the end of the week...
...Eagle Laundry, 'Boss, Ah ain't had no 'sperience in washin' eagles.'" That is the way Mr. Stewart, himself a Yale graduate, felt about addressing Harvard audiences, he declared; but his present lecture tour with its attendant hardships has prepared him for the ordeal of disclosing to them the history of his life. His humor only came into its own, he said, when he left business as a profession some four years ago. Until then, his precocious wit was disparaged unanimously by neighbors, schoolmates, and employers. The first phase of a business career was terminated by the war, when...
...Finnish baths are to be installed at Harvard. Athletes at Soldiers Field who have never been either burned at the stake or boiled in oil don't know what they've missed; but one who has undergone the Finnish ordeal volunteers his experience...