Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Love Duel. It would save a great deal of translating if English-writing dramatists could learn of the debonair didos that presumably occur in Vienna and Budapest after the curtains are drawn. But to most English-writing dramatists sex remains the cue for either a problem play or an Oriental extravaganza. Therefore central Europe is combed for playwrights akin to the gently libidinous Ferenc Molnar. One of the latest combings is Lili Hatvany, authoress of The Love Duel...
...issued this brief, important statement to the press: "Throughout the German republic there is a feeling of unrest and dissatisfaction among the laboring classes. If this feeling brings about the expected strikes in many industries, 3,000,000 persons will be thrown out of work, adding a severe problem to a nation which, without the strikes, is endeavoring to absorb the 2,000,000 already unemployed. "Germany is looking to neighboring Russia as a means of economic preservation, for should trade with that country be developed to a considerable extent, many of the men who are without work today would...
...greater social import than the problem of the Vice President's official hostess, is the problem of night-club hostesses in free-&-easy Manhattan, where Assistant Attorney Mabel Walker Willebrandt lately lost her Prohibition cases against the two outstanding personages of nocturnal fame, Mary Louise ("Texas") Guinan and Helen Morgan. Manhattanites were interested last week in the following statement by Miss Guinan...
...altogether unsuitable to have gone for a birthday party to "G'anpa and G'annie's" dour, ancestral Glamis Castle in Scotland, according to legend the very same in which, as Shakespeare has told, Macbeth did murder Duncan. Presents for their daughter are more of a problem to the Duke & Duchess of York than to the parents of most three-year-olds. For example, on their tour of Australia (TIME, Jan. 17, et seq.) they were obliged to accept and bring home "for Baby Betty" no less than three tons of toys and precisely 20 fine squawking...
...National Utility Associations. They were joined, among others, by banking associations. A spokesman for one of these associations, Henry R. Hayes, President of the Investment Bankers Association of America, appeared before the committee on Interstate Commerce, on January 17, 1928. He argued, among other things, that there was no problem of interstate transmission of electricity to be investigated. He said, "Based on the study made by the School of Business Administration of Harvard University, it would seem that the interstate traffic in the sale of Kilowatt hours amounts to only 9.06 per cent out of the total output in this...