Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strung consists of Susan Sprague's (Madge Evans) efforts to put Patsy in the orphan home and win the love of Crosby. By that time even such good songs as One, Two- Button Your Shoe and Let's Call a Heart a Heart are beginning to suffer from the audience's apprehension that the next sequence may be pennies from heaven in a submarine, or pennies from heaven with the Spanish Revolution. Best bit: black Louis Armstrong with his band rendering "Skeleton in the Closet...
Again and again Madrid proletarians were driven in mad, screaming retreat, but again and again their shattered lines reformed to attempt fresh resistance with Spanish stubbornness, then suffer another rout. Meanwhile, smiling Generalissimo Franco was exhibiting his other distinctive characteristics: caution, thoroughness, quick decision, forehandedness. The steep-banked Manzanares River still lay between him and the capital and he knew its six bridges were heavily mined, but along with attending to military details he was also ready with his own White police force and his own skeleton force of civil servants ready to install them in the Government buildings which...
...believing that it is detrimental to the reputation of the University to suffer helpless humiliation over and over again as under present conditions...
...through the dark continent are driven to increasingly eccentric exploits in their desire to stay off beaten paths and make interesting copy. Net result is that a collection of recent African books is likely to give armchair travelers a vague feeling that both blacks and whites in Africa habitually suffer from a touch of tropic sun, natives indulging in some pretty weird ceremonies, their white observers indulging in carrying-ons no less grotesque. A patient reader who goes through eight current African books will probably emerge with this feeling a certainty and with a strange hatful of ethnological information, native...
...also pointed out that unemployment in this state started and continued all through the twenties, whereas it was upwards in the rest of the country. Because of the wide diversification of its industries and the predominance of consumers' goods Massachusetts did not suffer so heavily during the recent depression. Although it lost heavily, the state gained relatively over the rest of the United States...