Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...party it would certainly tip the scale. H. R. H. gave politicians a lot to think about by his trip to the coal fields and later by declaring at a banquet attended by foremost British industrialists that unless they improve their sales methods the Empire's trade will suffer (TIME, March 4). Should he openly attempt, however, to champion any party he would be doing violence to that most cherished of British fetishes−the idea that the Throne is above politics. Thus any move by Edward of Wales to use his power, which if he seemed...
Pressed by a newsman to declare his pet aversion, he said, "Fools, perhaps. Scripture tells us 'Suffer fools gladly,' but Chesterton goes Scripture one better with 'Enjoy fools uproariously.' " His favorite novelist is Warwick Deeping, his favorite novel Sorrell...
...greatest annoyance is, however, the closing of the Fogg Reading Room on Sunday. The importance of the Museum among Harvard's thousand-and-one sights would hardly suffer if the Reading Room were kept open Sunday afternoon and evening; and disturbance to readers would be avoided by shutting off that room as is done during weekday evenings. Certainly the condition of the student swamped by the exactitudes and executions of outside reading deserves the amelioration afforded by these two measures...
...audiences they have preferred those in the U. S. The reason for their farewell was not announced. Some say that they agreed to separate after 25 years. Others say that it is because venerable Violinist Betti is threatened with that next-to-the-worst affliction a musician can suffer-blindness...
Forty is the perilous age for a workingman. After that he is the first to suffer in a layoff, the last to regain employment. Employers are exhibiting an increasing preference for younger men, at the expense of their elders...