Word: strained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French haute couture," Once upon a time-Wartime-the Journal conducted a campaign for U. S. styles by U. S. designers for U. S. women. Nothing came of it, however, and now the Journal publishes page upon page of lovely creatures tagged with French names, letterpressed in lyric strain. In the face of the Journal's scoop, its competitors professed to be unmoved. They would go on getting their patterns as before, they said, chiefly through style scouts, sketchers and copyists in Paris and other places where the famed fair exhibit. As everyone knows, there is a, giant pattern...
...select his successor. He had, he said, no feeling that the no-third-term tradition applied to him, as he had come up from the vice presidency and he was sure that the country shared his opinion. But ten years in the White House was too long a strain. Wrote Mr. Coolidge...
...lighting in the lecture rooms is so bad when the lamps are dimmed for slide projection that a positive strain on the eyes results from an hour's attempt at taking notes in the gloom...
...Court. Bankruptcy cases strain the integrity of the best U. S. courts. Countless dollars are held in trust by the court, countless assistants are named to administer them. The judicial machinery is cumbersome and complex, understood only by legal experts. Large are the potentialities for graft and corruption...
...most performances of any Shakespearian role, which she holds as a result of 698 performances of Juliet; and second, for the presentation of Juliet seven times a week a thing which she did frequently but which no other actress has ever attempted because of the physical and emotional strain of the role...