Word: parlous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true, substantially aided by the inability of the nation to fathom the devious method of Russian statecraft. Before him there had been a period which the Russians themselves have called, "The time of troubles." Anyone who has read the more gay Russian novels will realize how parlous bad must have been these times. After Peter, while the world was waiting for Catherine II, there ruled three weak women, two of them foreigners. They in turn were followed by a child of one, a boy of twelve, and a man whose chief pre-occupation at the age of thirty...
...have risen in their distress and lifted their voices in the most widespread and concerted demand that has moved them during modern years. . . . Whether the situation can be reme died by legislation remains to be determined. The hopes and prayers of Texas are that it can. . . . These are abnormal, parlous times. . . . The eyes of the nation are upon us, watching and hoping for us to raise a torch that will light the way for the Southland out of the darkness that now engulfs...
...which sometimes run as high as 65% of the gross. The season had been ruinous. In 1930 the seven biggest casinos reported a deficit of 21% in their takings compared with the year before. This year's deficit, wailed the managers, will be over 50%. To illustrate the parlous state of affairs the managers pointed to Nicholas Zographos, "Nicky the Greek." greatest gambler in Europe. M. Zographos is head of the Greek gambling syndicate which operates the casinos' baccarat banks. Last week as was his custom Nicky the Greek sat behind the shoe at Deauville. Normally the baccarat...
...strong Royalist cabinet of Admiral Juan Bautista Aznar (TIME, March 2), Alfonso went to Great Britain to visit his ailing mother-in-law, Princess Beatrice. He realized that Spain's most immediate problem was not Republicanism, which like the poor he has always with him, but the parlous state of the Spanish peseta, which since the Dictatorship of the late Primo de Rivera has slumped from 5.89 to 10.66 to the dollar. A Loan from the House of Morgan helped stabilize the French franc in 1926. Spain had had $25,000,000 from the same source...
...mind. . . . Young man, I say, first learn to write common sense; then study to be wise, and beauty will afterwards be added to you." The role of the critic is to train writers ("Artists are born, but critics make them"), but criticism, says Critic Orage. is today in a parlous state: " . . As good writers exist today as at any time, save the greatest in our history, but . . . our critics are, without exaggeration, the worst ever known in any world of letters...