Word: ordeal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cameras use brighter lights, need glass partitions or windows to prevent recording the clicking of the machines, boast much more involved paraphernalia than ordinary cinemachines. Greater conveniences exist in Hollywood, yet many a cinemactor has blanched before his first "talkie" ordeal. Difficult therefore was the role of the polyglot actors in Paris. And difficult also the job of the cameramen stumbling over and struggling with old rose-covered chairs and large horseshoe table...
...cures have occasionally resulted when deafness or vocal paralysis was functional. But not when either was organic, as in this case. Julius Shaefer was mute from a lesion in his brain. Yet, his mother, against the objection of her Dr. Samuel C. Reiss, had put her child through the ordeal, stubbornly faithful that science could cure...
...Smith has borne the ordeal of these first few days in the South with a charming poise that I feel sure never deserts...
Experience of the workaday kind that might, like the coffee grinder at the bottom of the sea, go on turning out a man's salt for the rest of his life. An ordeal of caricature for both innocent and the guilty has been won by the swollen importance of undergraduate publication activity in the eyes of a self-conscious few. In reality these are outnumbered by the many who see it merely as one of the ways of learning his own possibilities. Such training may rarely produce vocational certainties and its specific usefulness is as various as individuals...
Loud and doleful have been the cries of English 72ites, who so recently have passed thru an ordeal called an hour exam. Loud and doleful are the cries over the fact that upon the outside reading, and upon the outside reading alone, was the exam based...