Word: suffer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loan sounded cheap and shoddy to their constituents who had learned to expect bigger and finer things from the generous New Deal. Unexpressed, but probably more potent, was the fact that Cotton Senators knew that cotton mills and speculators in the South who had bought cotton at 11? would suffer a loss if AAA moved its price peg down 3?. Two days later, anxious to send Congress packing. President Roosevelt offered to lend 10? instead of 9?, and Congress adjourned in a flare of fireworks staged by Senator Huey Long, unassisted...
...last to have been given sensible speaking parts, emerging as complex, poetic, dignified, good-humored men & women deeply conscious of the evil times that have come upon their race. Never loquacious, they speak with an easy informality that has the charm of a good translation of dialect. They suffer their humiliations at the hands of white men with impassive reserve, love their wives & children, misbehave only when a wild streak comes to the surface in the memory of past greatness, or in an unyielding desire for savage revenge. Although Oliver La Farge's stories of them, when analyzed, prove...
...Boggs Beale hoped one day to see published. Some weeks Artist Beale, in humorous vein, would confect such a series as The First Auto (see cut), in which a swank couple in duster and goggles buy a two-cylinder Pope-Hartford, take to the open road, encounter a thunderstorm, suffer a breakdown (which they attempt to mend with a gimlet and a hatchet), and finally drive on into a sentimental rainbow. More rough & tumble were Beale's ideas of Mrs. Casey's goat which butted a respectable Philadelphian into a watering trough or Uncle Rastus and His Mule...
...cowardice of his third officer (Lewis Stone), Captain Gaskell is forced to rechain it almost singlehanded. When the pirates board the Kin Lung they first attach a Malay boot to Captain Gaskell's right foot.* Says oily MacArdle: "Why, it's breaking my heart to see you suffer like this. I can't bear it. . . . Please tell them where it is. . . ." Then the pirates begin reaching into the ladies' dresses for their jewels. Routed at last, when the disgraced third officer heroically redeems himself, the pirates disappear leaving the Kin Lung much better off than...
...family implores his kin to have no quarrels, which might put a curse on the net and drive the turtles away. The ba-Ila of Africa are certain that if a person is discontented with his portion of eland meat but does not speak out, his kin will suffer from goitre and wens on the head...