Word: sufferer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Just as mortals suffer differently from the immortal gods, so you have a different view from me of Parliamentary debates. You hear too little, and I hear too much. ... If by microphone amplification we were able to make M. P.s' words more audible, it might be that you would overhear things which would destroy your ingenuousness...
Italy, while her politicians coyly debated which side to join, did not suffer greatly in 1914 and 1915 except from the rising cost of food. In Rumania and Bulgaria peasants suffered less than townspeople in the first years of the War as both groups of belligerents tried to buy foodstuffs, but both governments had finally to fix prices...
...speaking: "A speech is entertaining only when serenely detached from all information." On John Garner: "You play a straight oftener than almost any other man I know." On consistency: "But there never has been superadded to these vices of mine the withering, embalming vice of consistency." On himself: "I suffer from cacoethes loquendi, a mania or itch for talking, and from vanity . . . and morbidity, and, as is obvious to everyone who knows me, an inborn, an inveterate flair for histrionics. ... I am pachydermatous. ... I am a veritable peripatetic bifurcated volcano on behalf of Democratic principles...
...penalty tariff on Japan's exports to the U.S. would hit the silk trade. Japan produces 75% of the world's raw silk, the U.S. consumes almost all of it, and neither can find an adequate market or source of supply elsewhere. U.S. women would suffer by paying more for silk stockings (half the world's silk sheathes their legs) and Japan would be threatened with permanent loss of part of her silk market to nylon, rayon and other synthetic U.S. yarns...
...other commodities Japan might lose her U.S. market more or less completely but, except as Japan's domestic consumption of cotton fell off, U.S. cotton producers might not suffer: if Brazil, for example, sells cotton to Japan instead of Britain, the U.S. should be able to sell to Britain instead of Japan...