Word: plight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also devoted to the plight of Europe's children is They Shall Inherit the Earth, by Czech Novelist and Playwright Otto Zoff (John Day; $3). It is written from the relief workers' point of view, with an enthusiastic foreword by Dorothy Canfield Fisher; its greatest lack is the statistics that would give substance to its disconnected case histories and its well-intentioned but sketchy stories of distress among the 100,000,000 children of the Axis-occupied countries. Most shocking question it raises: When Europe's uprooted children grow up, what will they do to a world...
This attitude has roots in the strange, cool personality of Donald Douglas-and illustrates exactly the present plight of the airplane industry, which is crowding the skies of the world with warplanes, and dreads the day when it must convert to making a dribble of peace planes...
...PLIGHT OF JEWS...
...distresses Nancy and Defense Attorney Godfrey Higgs that Freddy still refuses to take his plight seriously. Before the bar he lolls, stretches his long legs, traps flies, winks at friends, strokes his shiny Vandyke and spins in his swivel chair. Beyond a formal denial of guilt, he has said nothing...
Perhaps the best signpost to the trend of the times is the plight of Pudding, now the Hasty Pudding Service Club, for the use of officers stationed here. Then there's the Yard, with a play-pen for officers' kiddies next to Hollis Hall, and civilians seance as hen's teeth among the ancient elms...