Word: plight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stage character as the comedian who longs to play Hamlet. What makes Cartoonist Cady's non-commercial work easier to take than the arty strivings of most of his competitors is the simplicity of his approach. He is not the least bothered by surrealism. Communism, psychoanalysis or the plight of NRA. When he wants to paint the harbor of Rockport or the portrait of a nun he does it as naturally as he would a flopsy-mopsy bunny...
...sorry plight of the mortgage companies arose from the fact that they had guaranteed 35% of all the mortgages in New York City and that by 1932 this $3,000,000,000 contingent liability had largely ceased to be contingent. Underlying mortgages defaulted, foreclosed property became practically unsaleable and investors demanded that the companies make good their "guarantees."' When the situation threatened the whole banking equilibrium, Manhattan bankers, backed by the RFC, made futile credit gestures. By that time, however, most of the large companies were quite insolvent. With a sigh of relief Commissioner Van Schaick clamped down...
...interest in Hell started as a boy when he used to pore over the family copy of Dore's Dante. . His first book of infernal drawings, Hell Up to Date was published in 1892. Another followed in 1901. A third appeared last week.* All these depict the plight of a race of pudgy little people who, all hot and naked, are pursued through dozens of imaginative infernos that mirror the modern world. Most of these drawings were made in his square, asbestos-shingled studio in Bethel, Conn., which resembles a shooting gallery. The quality of Art Young...
Neither the deathly plight of a Houston baby with water on the brain, nor a speedy flight by Air-Champion James R. Wedell, nor an operation by Johns Hopkins' Brain Surgeon Walter Edward Dandy is in itself important news. But the combination of all three last week on the front page of the nation's Press gave the country a stirring drama of death defeated by human effort...
Reason for the tobacco growers' plight is loss of foreign markets. Of a normal one and one-half billion pound crop less than half is consumed in the U. S. During Depression England and other overseas buyers have clamped on import duties, cut U. S. consumption. With U. S. stocks on hand already amounting to two billion pounds, prices for this year's crop depend on next year's crop restriction...