Word: ordeal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Greely has long outlived the bitterness he once felt because, while geographic societies in France, England, Russia, Argentina, Scotland and Sweden were doing him honor, his own Government continued to ignore his Arctic ordeal. Far more interesting to him last week than the memories of 1884 were the New Deal and the exploits of Adolf Hitler. Receiving interviewers at his home in Georgetown, D. C., the old soldier fingered his white brush, remarked: "When you get to be 90, medals don't seem as important as they do when you are younger...
...result," declared his secretary, "the Primate is suffering from severe cramps and head pains. Although he is robust, his health was greatly affected by the ordeal...
Ahead of Mr. Mellon, who is so painfully shy that his low quavering voice fades even in private conversation, lay a dreadful ordeal-his own appearance on the witness stand. Secretary Johnson had testified that he himself prepared his employer's 1931 tax return, that, in the confusion of his departure for London as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Mr. Mellon barely glanced at it, did not swear to it. But Counsel Hogan announced that when he took the stand Mr. Mellon would assume full responsibility for the return...
Stiffer tests will come when Madame Flagstad sings Isolde and Brünnhilde, the big heroic roles for which she was chiefly imported. But she is approaching the ordeal with rare calm and self-possession. Back stage she knits constantly, "just like your President's wife." As Mrs. Henry Johansen, wife of a wealthy lumber merchant, her Metropolitan earnings mean little to her. "If I am a big success," she said last week, "I shall come back next year. Otherwise I stay in Norway...
...years of her trail and re-trial, and her later simpering, nasty temperament which makes her ruin the lives of the rest of her family. When she first arrives home she acts the part of a normal person coming to her family circle after some extremely trying, emotional ordeal. Her joy and sadness and reactions here, however, are in direct opposition to her later, flighty giddiness which show her to be the utterly disgusting, carnal lover that she is. But such points are of minor importance in considering the excellent job Miss Foster does in this most difficult part...