Word: ordeal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large or forceful hand in its affairs. As a politician he plays a dull routine game; his money, his corporate connections, offset his lack of imagination. His term expires March 3, 1931. Aware of a rising hostility in Colorado, he does not intend to offer himself for the risky ordeal of reelection...
...Crowther, business writer and investigator for the Saturday Evening Post. His major thesis: the prosperity of the past decade was due to Prohibition. His prime evidence: statements solicited from Henry Ford and Thomas Alva Edison, who, unlike Pierre Samuel du Pont and William Wallace Atterbury, did not risk the ordeal of crossexamination by personal appearance before the committee...
...third marriage ended appropriately in Paris. She lost control of herself, "and just flew at him." The divorce was a "teriffic ordeal" for Peggy?over 4,000 newspaper columns. She won, and her share was about $2,000,000. After a fling in Earl Carroll's Vanities, Peggy went legally to bed again?this time to Count Gosta Morner. He lasted six weeks. The Earl of Northesk (of Vanities Jessica Brown fame) and Count de Janze were later also-rans. Someone, said to be prominent in the automobile business, lately gave her the very biggest diamond she could find...
Challenge of Youth is a new and nauseating development of the ordeal by sex-problem. A professor's daughter in a small New England college town joins her friends in a league to combat the moral vigilance of their elders. Shortly thereafter her father inadvertently opens a door leading out of the front parlor and discovers her in the processes of sin. By the end of the play he feels he understands her better, has made a less romantic, more reasonable adjustment to life...