Word: straining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Commenting upon his resignation, Sir Auckland said: "It is not because my eyes have failed me that I am resigning the British Ambassadorship at Washington, but because physicians have informed me emphatically that if my eyes are again subjected to the intense strain which is unavoidable in carrying out diplomatic work that I may lose the use of them completely and permanently...
...phrase to explain this curiously tragical mixture. The handsome Olga wrote it last year and played it for the first time last week. It is obviously an "actory" part, conceived by one more cunning in stage interpretation than in stage creation. Yet through it runs an uneven strain of fierce vitality. For the moments when this strain is uppermost the play is valuable...
Slavery. A report of the Council decided after some debate to refer all future questions and inquiry to a special commission, which is to be created "if the funds of the League can stand the strain." Otherwise, apparently, references will be made in future to the Mandates Commission or to the International Bureau in Brussels...
...less and less (food is so costly), to Violet's great anxiety and in spite of all she could do. And Violet, too, began to wither and pine. Then Henry fell ill and refused to go to the hospital ? Violet broke under the strain and had to be taken off for an operation ? and, at the worst possible moment, Joe returned, in the clutches of acute malaria. Elsie had to hide him in her room and nurse both him and Henry, without Henry's finding out the situation ? poor Elsie! Poor Henry and Violet...
...regretted that the orchestra in accompanying him in this last played the Fire Music so poorly. It hurried through the music, cutting off the arpeggios as if it were too anxious to come to the end of a concert already protracted which had undoubtedly been a great strain on the players...