Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University of Michigan will surely not suffer in prestige by the falling off in the number of its freshmen, but in these days when most colleges are fairly swamped with applications, it is rather remarkable that one of the largest should experience a sudden decline. If the question of automobile ownership is to be credited with such an influence, it comes as a surprising commentary upon the undergraduate attitude and it might be agreed that President Little was fortunate in escaping responsibility for the education of two hundred young men who judge his university in terms of its automobiles...
What type of feminine English fiction reader may be calculated to suffer most from "an unprobed spirit of romance"? Why, who but a typist? A pure, attractive, hardworking, intelligent young woman between 25 and 30; the kind Elinor Glyn gushes over and Gilbert Frankau glorifies. She dresses modestly for her work (an "alas, very cheap" fur coat). She discourages the advances of young men on the tops of busses, carries her notes in a neat handbag and would sooner sit home and read in the evenings than gad about at dance places?unless her girl chum is in town...
...Valera raised earlier in the year in the U. S., which is said to have aided him importantly in capturing 44 seats at the last election. Observers said that it will be difficult for him to raise money now and that the party is likely to suffer as a result. However, Mr. de Valera announced that he is well prepared, and as an indication of the strenuous fight he intends to wage, Republican conventions for naming candidates were held in all constituencies...
...name is given, but it is unmistakably Schopenhauer's pessimism, entering upon the tired mind of the last member to a hitherto romantic, Victorian, uncomplicated tribe. For, last he is, the last grown-up at least. His son dies as a boy; we accompany him to school, suffer with him the heartaches and the thousand natural shocks that he is heir to. But the first serious attack on Hanno's health severs the thin thread that holds him to life...
...very unfortunate that the maestro should have so prefaced his latest effort. Whatever worth the picture has will suffer disparagement when compared with director's bloated ideals. They needed a Yes-Man in Heaven and God appointed C. B. de Mille...