Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Foreign Minister Stresemann, in a speech in Berlin, said: "We are the sick limb of the European body politic." He mentioned a long list of indignities from which Germany had been forced to suffer and stated that Germany had never recognized and would never recognize the legality of the Ruhr occupation...
...student body at Trinity College against the recent ruling of the board of trustees compelling attendance at chapel collapsed yesterday when it was discovered that several star athletes would be lost to their respective teams if the undergraduate resistance continued. On Wednesday the undergraduates declared that they would suffer suspension rather than violate their ethical principles by accepting enforced attendance at religious services. In order to save these athletes a mass meeting of the undergraduate body was held, at which it was voted to rescind the vote of resistance taken on Monday. While the leaders of the movement...
Hundreds of candles burn in hundreds of stage windows while hundreds of stage mothers yearn for hundreds of wandering boys to return. Villians hiss: "You will suffer for this" all over the one-night stands. Heroines hold up burglars with pistols that aren't loaded. Working girls are leered at by wicked employers...
Some volumes, having attained patriarchal age, may not impossibly be granted a dignified privacy in the chill seclusion of a Vault or behind a wire mesh, but they suffer correspondingly in that they are thus completely cut off from the reading world. After all, a book must necessarily cherish a yearning to perform its function of imparting its con tents. There is little satisfaction in social position per se if no one bothers to find out how it was attained...
...deaths of books are nearly always tragic. Either they are destroyed by violence or they suffer a lingering dissolution. How the younger volumes must look up to the martyred Aeschylus, found ? wet and bedraggled ? in the pocket of the drowned Shelley! J.A.T...