Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Protest. Under the chairmanship of Governor Bibb Graves of Alabama, the Conference (minus Kentucky, which withdrew because it suffers least from the disparities by its location, has a competitive advantage over the "deep South") visited President Roosevelt, carried on an extensive advertising campaign, developed a mass of data which they laid before ICC at Birmingham to prove that Southern industries suffer from the disparities in rates. At the Buffalo hearings, which began fortnight ago, Bibb Graves was on hand to publicize the South's position but not to testify. That privilege was reserved for the North, and Governor Herbert...
...gang, Pinkie, pushes him off a staircase. Before long he is on a murder merry-go-round. But his worst experience, the high point of a lifetime's bitter humiliation, is when, in order to insure the waitress' loyalty, he has to suffer the hideous pangs of marriage...
...ought to do and is going to do for them is ... a contemptible kind of demagoguery. . . . The plain hard truth is that these kids and our whole population now demand many times more of everything than [the older generation] did and are not willing to work as hard or suffer as much...
Spying for the army that has blockaded the port of Castelmare, Miss Carroll changes sides after getting a good look at the city's undernourished urchins and oldsters. This serves to emphasize the picture's incontrovertible thesis-that civilian populations suffer in modern war-but since her sweetheart (Henry Fonda) is in the army fighting to defend Castelmare, audiences are not likely to be bowled over by Miss Carroll's change of sentiment. Otherwise, Blockade's main innovation lies in the fact that it concentrates not on the fighting in the front lines...
Says the introspective hero of this slyly anti-British novel: "Isn't pioneering always a running away from something? . . . It's more difficult to make your way among millions of your equals and betters than to shoot a few savages and animals and suffer some little inconveniences. The wild animals are less predatory too than the nicest people. Safer, for a person like...