Word: ordeal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Calendar. The exhausting all-day public reception at New Year's will be discontinued, said she. Undoubted reason: to spare the President the ordeal. The number of guests at the five other receptions will be curtailed. Guests whose names are removed from those lists will be received after the five state dinners. First of these affairs occurs this week, when the President and his lady dine the Cabinet. After that the White House calendar is arranged thus...
...this withdrawal Labour and the Social Democrats concurred. If they had refused to do so, private ownership, the real issue of the class struggle, would have been clarified and its outcome hastened. To such an ordeal the progressive parties did not wish to commit themselves, and the capitalists of Germany and Italy took advantage of their hesitancy to install a regime of violent social reaction. Since the change was not a revolutionary transfer, but merely an assertion by the governing classes of their own actual power, it was not difficult to enlist, for the purpose, the support of a great...
...Capitol, did its best to drain the vitality of all men who went about their business there. And perspiration stood upon the white fringed brow-as round and far more sunburned than the Capitol dome- of Senator Duncan Upshaw Fletcher. The venerable Senator might have been spared that ordeal. He might have returned to his constituents and sat with proper refreshment under the palm trees where the Atlantic laps on Florida's coral strand. His age, 74, entitled him to that surcease. Forty years as a holder of public office-in the Florida Legislature, as Mayor of Jacksonville...
Pugilists go into training before fights, and wise bankers go into training (of mind and memory) before being haled before an inquisitive committee of Congress. Last week Kuhn, Loeb partners were brushing up for an ordeal before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, brushing up, packing their records and their clothes for an extended stay in Washington...
...future international cooperation. The lecture was delivered and published under the auspices of the Milton Academy foundation, and in spite of Sir Frederick's post as Political Adviser to China, his tone is mild and historical. All this was done far more ably by Gilbert Murray in "The Ordeal of the Present Generation," with a keener and more tempered philosophical approach to the problem of nationalism and its justifications, but, as a lecturer, Sir Frederick has evidently many charms. One might have wished, however, that a man whose position has allowed him to see the course of League counsels with...