Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After all is said, business is but a privilege. Ours is not a right but a franchise. . . . If this be so, then the Government, representing both the people who gain most by our present system and those who suffer most, has the right and duty to control and organize this privilege so as to raise and fortify the general level of American life...
...without the services of Traff Hicks, and with Ford's charley horse a possible drawback. But Freddy Moseley, without whose services the team beat Me-Gill last week, will be in proper shape tonight, and with Thorny Brown at reserve defence in 'Hicks' place, the Harvard forces should not suffer seriously from lack of man-power...
...Monde Ou L'On S'Ennuie" is a charming relic of an almost forgotton period: the 1880's. A drawing-room comedy by Eduoard Pailleron, still in the repertoire of the Comedie Francaise, it suffers, as most plays suffer, in transference to the screen. There are long static scenes of photographed conversation, which must disappoint audiences that have been delighted by the rhythms of Rene Clair. The French have been among the leaders in the development of cinematic art, but the values of the present film are not cinematic. They are entirely those of the text and the acting...
Trust departments of U. S. banks suffer from low current interest rates, find it difficult to make trust funds of $20,000 or less selfsupporting. New York banks try to keep their minimum trust funds closer to $50,000. But they cannot get too haughty about taking little accounts because their advertisements solicit a general trust business. Trustee fees vary according to the State, the Courts, the local customs. In New York, banks get from 1 ½% to 3% of both principal and income, the percentage depending on the size of each.† Sometimes big estates pay less than standard...
...have played an important part in the spiritual moulding of one or two generations of human beings." These essays on the life and thought of Kipling, Wells, Shaw, Chesterton, Conrad, Strachey, Lawrence, Huxley, and Katherine Mansfield were first delivered as lectures to French audiences, and most of them suffer from the exigencies of their original purpose. Again and again an indigestibly large amount of biographical data is crammed into a study, followed by a series of extracts from the work of the writer with an expository commentary, and a critical estimate which in all but a few cases is disappointingly...