Word: ordeal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...renowned for his brilliant rhetoric, vivacious temperament and engaging personality, M. Viviani showed even greater qualities during those first days of the war, when the existence of France was rendered so precarious, by complete subjugation of all other interests to the task of leading his country through her terrible ordeal. He is sometimes called the Lloyd George of France...
...good theatrical reporter reports the plot and restricts himself to a minimum of personal opinion. The plot therefore is this: after an open chorus in which the male members of the cast who are obliged to impersonate females go through what is probably the most unpleasant ordeal of their lives, it develops that J. McK. Kimball is a hotel clerk, and not so very good either. To his hotel come a nouveau riche family from the frequently-pulverized Middle West, accompanied by a "French maid". Let us explain the character: the exterior finish is by Vivaudou, Inc., the housing...
...forgot his instructions so completely as to knock Carpentier out in the third round. It is not beyond the bounds of probability that Carpentier will now be matched with the inexpert McTigue in Paris. A graceful opportunity is thus afforded him to regain his championship without undergoing the ordeal of trading punches with the disagreeable Senegalese...
...will be useful for minor operations, such as extracting teeth, when the cause of pain is only momentary, and when the patient's heart is sound. Even at that, it may be widely useful; "Painless Dentistry", the promise of zealous advertisers, can become an everyday reality; and the ordeal of removing splinters and cinders will be only a matter of a few deep breaths...
Study-cards are one of the minor annoyances of mid-years. To the man for whom studies are merely an unpleasant corollary of college life, it is painful to have to choose new courses when he has barely come through the ordeal of the old ones. To the man to whom studies are the summum bonum, it is painful to contemplate the pamphlet known as "Courses of Instruction" and consider what a small fraction of possible education he is able to take. But in either case it has to be done, and done at once. Our familiar habit of leaving...