Word: ordeal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ORDEAL BY GLORY?James Marshall?McBride ($2). Had small-town John Hoyer married sex-appealing Agnes Paine instead of sweet, sympathetic Mary Borchard, he might never have become Governor. At his peak, however, when the architecture of his career has been executed to a nicety, he crumbles at a stroke of apoplexy...
...under the benefit and browning influence of the sun; it has been a cool and cloudy May. With the approach of examinations, however, Sol makes a belated appearance, and sculling is open once more for those who believe in a clear head as the best preparation for a mental ordeal; and once more the tannery on the Charles is doing a good business in idleness and early sunburns...
...stark under ether anesthesia. Dr. Hartman maneuvered a pair of long, thin forceps down the animal's throat until he caught hold of the splinter of bone. Fifteen minutes of delicate, painstaking work, and the bone came out. The dog, although greatly weakened by the ordeal, will recover...
...however, of the greater or lesser critics of things educational are going to judge this latest method of hedging the college degree by such whimsical, tenuous phenomena. They will want to know definitely whether or not this ordeal of fire really tested any ability, really helped an individual toward what might be called "sweetness" what can be called "light...
Something needs to be done. The president well says that as yet little has been proposed except either to let the game alone and take what comes, or to annihilate it. He favors neither. He wants football a game, and not an ordeal. Boston Herald...