Word: poignant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This poignant novel with its cold but meaningfull title is, generally speaking, an attack upon the economic conditions of our country. But Miss Brody, instead of launching a cut and dried treatise on the subject, brings into her book a love interest which concerns itself with two people who are caught in the struggle of money and who eventually, after numerous setbacks, find a life that holds for them true promise of happiness...
...reflection of conditions as seen by the Congress perhaps may be had from the poignant words of a Senator on the floor of the Senate discussing the Economy Bill, officially entitled "An Act to maintain the credit of the United States," which, among other things, reduced pensions and allowances to veterans. He said, "Let no one be deceived! This is not a time of peace. We are in the midst of the most disastrous conflict that has ever cursed this continent. Measured in terms of human suffering this panic's war against us has been more asgonizing than...
Miss Crothers has tried so many combinations of the misunderstood wife, the neglected and frigid husband, and the frustrated spinster that she does not get very much intensity into scenes that should be dramatically poignant. Although it is not the fashion to be aroused or wistful, surely the scene where Caine Woodruff, the publisher's wife finds out that she is in the same room with the woman who has enticed her husband, and the parting scenes are too artificially cool...
Throughout the nation the poignant wail of the debtor beats relentlessly upon political ears. At Logan, Iowa, last week 400 farmers forcibly halted another mortgage foreclosure sale. At Sidney, Neb. farm leaders prepared to march 200,000 irate debtors to the State Capitol at Lincoln and "tear it down" unless they got relief. In Wisconsin, Democratic Governor Schmedeman, after receiving a delegation of farm strikers, issued a proclamation calling upon circuit judges to hold all mortgage foreclosures in abeyance until the Legislature could declare a moratorium. Some judges promised to comply; others claimed they were legally powerless to obey...
...Intrades," which had to be held over for an extra performance, and by the marked revival of University interest in its productions, as in the early twenties, H. D. C. offers this fall "Circumstantial Evidence." This play, by Otto Bastion, is not the usual courtroom melodrama, but rather a poignant presentation of a problem that is more and more becoming of vital interest...