Word: strainings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Britain," Professor Roorbach said, 'has been economically, ill since the Great War, along with the rest of the world. The world-wide depression greatly added to the difficulties under which she was laboring; and, particularly, the recent financial depression in Germany and Central Europe was a great strain on British strength...
Last week the jury showed the strain of four long weeks of pondering complex banking documents and technicalities. They looked tired when young Judge M. V. Barnhill (who two years ago presided at the labor war trials in Gastonia) read his charge to them. This took him five hours. Then the jurors filed...
...order to march more hours in the heat before thousands of adults who should be more humane than to come to see them? Many of the children are very tiny things, the younger the better because the 'cuter' in the eyes of the judges. Weariness, overexcitement, nerve strain and perhaps contagious disease are deliberately courted for these children...
...beautiful little girl, adored only child of her parents, takes the principal part in the church Christmas Eve festival. What a strain! But what applause...
...Magnificent Lie (Paramount) is a tediously sentimental picture which for six reels endeavors to strain pathos out of a situation too peculiar to be sad in the first place. The situation is that of a soldier who, 13 years after the War, is still romantically devoted to a French actress named Duchene, because she once patted his head when he was in a hospital. When Duchene visits the U. S., he goes to see her act and to give her a bunch of camelias. In the middle of her play he goes blind. Practical jokesters later persuade a cabaret girl...