Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would like to obtain a brief explanation of the legislation now being considered at Washington for "farm relief," to be used as a "topic of the times" before a local literary club...
...Voted 66-14 to take up McNary-Haugen Farm Relief Bill (see FARMERS...
...proportion to its size and wealth-$100 each from only 4,000 Fundamentalists. But the Bryanites were sure the metropolis must harbor at least that many. A Brooklyn undertaker and three clergymen were the first assistants engaged by one Malcolm M. Lockhart, onetime solicitor for the Near East Relief, who now styled himself "militant Fundamentalist" and headed the Manhattan drive. Driver Lockhart was prepared to issue certificates, each carrying a vote on the university's board of directors, to anyone with $100. He emphatically denied that he or his assistants, like solicitors for the Supreme Kingdom (TIME...
...York World, ever tinged with yellow outside and intellectual blue-blood within, experienced the acute pain of a wolf trapped by the foot. It sought relief from its dilemma in an agonized editorial admitting that it was staggered by "a deep-rooted disorder in modern civilization." The public interest in the Brownings, it thought, was "no superficial blemish" but a phenomenon of vicarious sensual indulgence to which the nearest analogies were the Roman circus and the Spanish bullring. Yet "frank animalism" was lacking. "The combination between the courts and the tabloids," raged the World, "has produced a situation for which...
...Last Trail (Thomas Mix). It is a relief, now and then, to sit back and consume a westerner a picture where the hero streaks across the horizon on his able, horse, waves his lasso, humiliates the suave villain, rescues a milk-fed maiden. The plot is worthless; Zane Grey wrote it. The action is great; Cowboy Mix, Horse Tony, Bloodhound Blinkerton, two careening stage coaches...