Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Farm Relief was given more time than any other subject. The orator began with analysis and expression of deep solicitude. He totally avoided "equalization fee." His promises: 1) "to search out the common ground"; 2) benefit of tariff; 3) waterways, principally Great Lakes to Atlantic; 4) Federal Farm Board with money to spend. ... "A nation which is spending ninety billions a year can well afford an expenditure of a few hundred millions for a workable program that will give to one-third of its population their fair share of the nation's prosperity. . . . The working out of agricultural relief...
Each of these youths is heir to a Throne. Each has been mooned at and photographed ad nauseam. Therefore smart folk hailed with relief, last week, the definitive emergence of a fifth and little known prince: Charles of Flanders. Though he is not a Crown Prince, but the second son of King Albert of the Belgians, he officiated with the grace and freshness of youth, last week, at ceremonies which marked a pilgrimage to Belgium of 15,000 British Legionairies...
...residential districts make a practice of accosting peaceful citizens several times a year and shoving forward a printed ticket in a purposeful way. The ticket often resembles, in color and size, the card that one gets for speeding, parking without lights or committing a nuisance. The citizen's relief is great when he finds that he has not been arrested, that the ticket is merely an admission to the next policemen's ball or euchre-fest or field day. The citizen now exhibits his nonchalance in the presence of the Law, also his good-fellowship and good-citizenship...
...pigs is strongly urged, especially if the swine are pastured in lots with running streams, since these may be a dangerous .source of infection." Chemists and advanced agriculturists met last week at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., as the second American Chemical Society Institute. They, too, admonished the farmer. Farm Relief. The day of farming for food alone seems over. It cannot be made to pay unless supported by government crutches. Always it is a hazardous gamble, depending on the turn of a tide or a rainfall in Russia. Scientists would make the farmer see his farm not as a source...
...news of his wife's death. He goes to the corpse, led by a young nun who lures him with mischievous eyes, and a lovely hand "passive as a sleeping bird." In the quivering candle glow the composure of the dead face mocks him, and his embarrassed relief reacts with an extraordinary smile. Contagious, it starts wickedly on the pained faces of the attendant nuns, like "subtle flowers opening." The mischievous young one strangles her smile with sobs on the Mother Superior's bosom, but the husband rushes, with his, down the echoing corridor...