Word: plight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Church folk throughout the U. S. began telegraphing Secretary Perkins. The Federal Council of Churches brought Dr. Kagawa's plight to the attention of President Roosevelt. Promptly, on the third day of the good doctor's stay at Angel Island, the President at a Cabinet meeting told Secretaries Hull, Morgenthau and Perkins to get busy. In two hours the State, Treasury and Labor Departments evolved a legal arrangement whereby Japan's No. 1 Christian would get a seven-month visitor's permit on condition that he be constantly accompanied by a doctor or nurse...
...read of the exploits of an Obstetrician who terms himself "Love's Whitewing, or the D. S. C. of the tender passions," or of the horrible torture Mr. Clippey underwent in his frustrated efforts to "wash his hands," or of the sad plight of "a spinster named Gretel, who wore underclothes made of metal," or chuckle over Mr. Nash's delicate eulogy to a privy. But personally we enjoyed most a little song by Odgen Nash entitled "Quartet For The Sidewalks of New York" from which we quote a stanza...
...during an evening of drunkenness. Under the mistaken impression that his music is better than his wife's voice, Fonda receives a shock when he is ignored at a large party celebrating Soprano Pons's triumphant début. Taking the usual course for men in his plight, he makes a scene voicing his self-pity as a failure, disappears. Miss Pons, thoroughly bored with lonely success, finds him driving a taxi, turns his bad opera into good musicomedy. Agreeably sung by Lily Pons are four songs by Jerome Kern, including a waltz called I Dream Too Much...
...most eloquent passages in The Crisis of the Middle Class are those in which the author pictures the present plight of the U. S. middle class. "Large numbers of small producers, storekeepers and independent professionals are always killed off by depression. But mere assassination now becomes massacre. In only three years of the depression, from 1930 to 1932, 578,000 independent enterprisers in industry, trade and the professions, were driven out of business: one out of six. The massacre is still on; the survivors tremble." Lewis Corey sets the low point of unemployment among salaried employes...
...certain few days last week Clark House led a very trying existence. Outwardly they showed no signs of their plight, for being a very sensitive group of maidens, they feared ostracism from the rest of the college if their unfortunate position were discovered...