Word: plight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story relates the plight of a continental diva who in persuing her career has neglected to find time for those elements of romance which seem to be conducive to full artistic expression. Driven to desperation by the indifference of a paternal, middle-aged fiance, the comely vocalist throws her cap over the windmill, seeking solace in the arms of an unknown admirer, who is at first disillusioned by the young lady's forwardness, but cannot help revealing his love and the fact that he is an American impresario with a contract for the singer...
...Mayo Clinic read of her plight, sent her some Swingle & Pnffner hormone from Rochester, Minn...
...Clyde Griffiths of the book and cinema was in actual life one Chester Gillette, and Roberta Alden was Miss Grace Brown. They had been keeping more or less clandestine company for some time before the episode and when they discovered their unfortunate plight a series of letters passed between them, these letters being mainly written by Miss Brown who implored Gillette to marry...
...into the street. The car runs over him, does not kill him; but he loses his right arm. Old friends rescue him, take him to a hospital, stand by till he is on his feet again. The old friends are naturally crooks but they are loyal, sympathize with his plight, respect his determination. They get him another girl, little Mieze, fresh from the streets. Biberkopf becomes her pimp. They live in comparative comfort, surprise themselves by falling in love with each other. Then Reinhold comes on the scene again...
...reign of lusty King Henry VIII, England was in sorry plight. The State was pillaging the Church. The Enclosures had made weedy grazing land where once stood pleasant farms. Sir Thomas More cried out: "In England the sheep are eating...