Word: plight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unhappy because Jack & Jean, the farmer's children, dislike milk. Orgets Bee & Baw retire to a dell to ponder Cow's plight, come upon two starving baby foxes. Back to the farmyard they flit, persuade Cow to lumber off to the dell with milk for the foxes. On the way clumsy Cow catches a hoof in a railroad track, is nearly killed by a train. Jack & Jean, overcome by Cow's bravery, agree to love her, drink milk...
Over 100 U. S. vaudeville performers have been booked by Gomez, the Soviet State entertainment trust, to cavort, tapdance, tumble and blow rubber razzberries in Russia this summer. Last week the U. S. State Department called attention to the plight in Moscow of "The Mangean Four Troupe," a hardy U. S. team who have barnstormed around Europe for some two years under the management of shrewd, brassy Hazel Mangean...
...implication is obvious. A reader in California, Illinois, Texas and any other State outside of New York can come to but one conclusion: The Jews are flagrantly exploiting Harlem and are solely responsible for its plight. Have you proof that Jews own all the saloons? Have you proof that Jews own all the brothels? When a statement of a derogatory and libelous nature is made, it must be backed by facts in order to show that the statement is not prompted by prejudice and malevolence...
...sign of the restless times lies heavier on it with every page. Ewan, a cool customer who cares for nothing and nobody but himself and his own affairs, finds himself forced into awareness of his fellow-workers. Before he realizes it he is emotionally involved in their plight, and a friendship with a socialistic young schoolmarm rouses his intellectual interest in the economic wherefores...
...Museum's second floor was devoted to modern pictures by such standbys as Marsh, Curry, Benton, Biddle, Hopper, Burchfield, Sloan, et al. More interesting were the 19th Century paintings that filled the ground floor-sentimental middle-class canvases by comfortable middle-class artists entirely unaware of breadlines, the plight of the masses, the villainy of capitalists or any of the other things that excited the brushes of their successors upstairs...