Word: sore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chaos and disorder are "normalcy" to China. There was a trifle less chaos, a mite less disorder last week (although floods & famine continued and bubonic plague broke out in western Honan) as President Chiang Kai-shek succeeded in rallying all Chinese factions (except the Communists in China's central sore spot) to fight and resist the moral wrong of Japanese occupation of Manchuria...
...small rabbit which lives on the Westbury, L. I. estate of Mrs. John S. Phipps was sore disturbed one day last week. It became aware that it was being pursued by a pack of hounds. The hounds were the Aiken Beagles, a well-bred pack of 14 couple owned and hunted by Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock, famed horsewoman and mother of polo-playing Thomas Hitchcock Jr. Behind the hounds rode Mrs. Hitchcock and a granddaughter, eager for a morning's sport. Presently, the Phipps rabbit became aware that it was no longer being pursued, that the hounds, far behind...
When a writer is suffering with sore head, either from inverted patriotism or from some more personal reason, he may write the kind of vindictive book that shocks the public into attention. Richard Aldington has done just that in The Colonel's Daughter. Banned by Smith's (big distributors) in England, banned by Ireland, but reviewed even by conservative London Punch with cold respect, The Colonel's Daughter should delight U. S. Anglophobes. for this British-written book about Britain is of the kind to make even Britishers wince...
...last ditch. After all his millions failed to hold it he gave up. Son "Zammie" then approached him (according to the tale) and said some thing to this effect: "Dad, I knew you were wrong in trying to hold the stock up. I hope you won't be sore when I tell you I've been selling it short the whole time and want to pay you back every cent you lost...
Prices. "Steel men generally must realize that they can ill afford to sell their products even at current prices after they have studied the second quarter earnings." Thus did President Grace, after last week's Bethlehem meeting, put his finger on the industry's sore spot: prices. He said "even at current prices"' because since President Farrell of U. S. Steel told his colleagues two months ago that it was "immoral" to cut steel prices as they were doing, there has been a perceptible rising and firming of prices. Bars, shapes and plates, for example, were last...