Word: plight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After a critical comparison of the Soviet system with Capitalism in other countries," said Lawyer Patterson last week, "I am convinced that when the Negro masses of America come to understand more clearly the ideology of Communism they must accept it as the only genuine relief from their present plight...
Einstein takes Science religiously, thinks only heretics are capable of the highest religious experience. Morals, he says, require "no support from religion. Man's plight would, indeed, be sad if he had to be kept in order through fear of punishment and hope of rewards after death." Few men have a better right than Einstein to fear and dislike the Press. He calls it a "distorting mirror," hopes radio will be a better international language. Everybody knows Einstein is a Zionist, but perhaps not so many realize he is a militant pacifist. Of Fire-eater Hitler he takes...
...Plight. The White House seemed a long way from John Farmer's withered little acres but he was hopeful. His corn was gone. His well was dry. His pasture was a tinder box. His cows were hungry. His vegetable patch was a mass of brown weeds. His supply of cash was dangerously low. He already owed the county bank more than he could pay this year or next. Typhoid fever had broken out nearby. John Farmer faced a bad winter...
...club property seemed the most expedient way out of The Lambs' difficulty. Immediate cause of financial embarrassment was the penury of actor members who, pinched by unsuccessful seasons, could not pay their house charges. Shepherd Royle jovially diagnosed the present condition of show business as similar to the plight of a legendary unfortunate who was "shot in the liver, lights, vitals and lower part of the saloon." The audible cinema he considered a contributory ailment...
Quick with friendly interest in Publisher Nast's plight were not only Vogue's readers, but other publishers, who eyed each other suspiciously to see who had been treating a brother so. The files of public prints were examined. Publisher Nast's lawyers were interrogated. And then the other publishers had to applaud Publisher Nast...