Word: ordeal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House was the scene of the first Army and Navy reception held in two years. Some 3,000 guests were invited. During the ordeal of receiving, Mrs. John W. Weeks, consort of the Secretary of War, fainted, was revived and taken home by her husband...
...with something of the same smiling seriousness that the University throws open its doors to the returning student, so soon to undergo the ordeal of Mid-year examinations. There incongruity of the present moment intermingles wishes for a "Happy New Year" with warnings of the approaching period of trial and judgment. The anxious student consults the calendar and counts his hours of grace before the first examination...
...time of its publication by such critics as the late William Marion Reedy and recently reprinted by Huebsch; Crime, Its Cause and Treatment, and Resist Not Evil. He has also contributed many articles to magazines and reviews, and the current American Mercury has an article by him entitled The Ordeal of Prohibition, designed to show that it has been the practice of civilized countries to fail to enforce, rather than to repeal, unwise and unpopular laws...
...newspaper notoriety. For five hours and forty minutes, Troutman was under the knife; six surgeons and physicians, with their assistants, were in action. The patient was so weak that ether could not be administered; a local anesthetic dulled the pain but not the mind of Troutman, who, throughout the ordeal, exchanged quips and jokes with the surgeons. Once, he laughed. Beyond all expectation, this feat of surgery was successful. Again the doctors of the University Hospital have arrested the attention of the press; again they have saved the life of a man in extremity...
...emissaries after undergoing a thorough rearrangement during the last twelvemonth, is again to foe altered. Cyrus E. Woods, who last summer was transferred from Madrid to Tokyo sent in his resignation. He resigned on account of the health of his mother-in-law which had been affected by the ordeal of the Japanese earthquake last Summer. In making the announcement, the White House asserted that-in spite of all diplomatic usage-health really was the cause of Mr. Woods' retirement. The State Department declared that Mr. Woods' resignation had been tendered some three weeks ago, but had been...