Word: strains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the mental strain was more than sensitive Yankee Gehrig could bear. The highest-salaried ($34,000 a year) baseballer in the major leagues had succeeded in getting only four hits and driving in only one run in the first eight games of the season. Every time he went to bat he felt that all the baseball fans in the world could hear him creak. When he got a hit he ran as though there were lead in his shoes. He missed low throws and grounders. Convinced that he was a hindrance rather than a help to his team...
...Most of us could do with a little Jewish blood and intelligence. I am sure that I could and I think that a little of that strain, at the very least, would have improved the shape of my nose...
...Hills band played for the Smoker and was so well received that the committee is taking this opportunity of bringing him back again. We hope the free dance will alleviate the strain which the weekend might place on many Freshman pocketbooks," stated Newman...
...Ginger Ted's character as required by the plot, Mr. Laughton has added so many minor oscillations that he leaves no fixed conception. Perhaps this flexibility of Ted's personality was preconceived in Mr. Laughton's mind. If so, he over-emphasized the flexibility. Or perhaps, because of the strain of producing the picture, he has unconsciously let too much of the self-assured Producer filter into his portrayal of the lazy and dissolute Ted. Yet despite the defects of Laughton's acting, his skill in the creation of a distinguished production show that he has kept his place...
Last week, he was visibly glad the strain was over. He made good all but $30,000 of the loss, offered his house to reduce the deficit further, said he wanted to take his medicine. Impressed, the judge let him off with two to five years in State prison...