Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first emerged as a political figure in Catholic, reactionary Munich. Small, sparse Adolf Hitler with the little mustache and the great, rasping voice had gained the moral and financial support of General Erich Ludendorff, once Germany's most brilliant commander, already beginning to suffer from the delusions that led him to take up alchemy and the worship of Woden. In Munich the Hitler Brown Shirts first appeared; the Hitler symbol, the ancient swastika; and the Hitler doctrine which included disfranchising Jews, repudiation of the Treaty of Versailles and Reparations; death to all Communists, and the abolition of department stores...
...Bowen last week had on hand a medical report concerning the phenomenon. The seven suffer from "hereditary ectodermal dysplasia of the anhidrotic type." That is, they lack sweat glands, and the lack is hereditary. However, the seven Mississippi cases are related only as indicated above. This suggests that the failing is not so uncommon as heretofore believed (only 23 cases have been reported previously in medical literature). The ailment must often escape medical attention. Along with the lack of sweat glands goes a lack of teeth. None of the seven Mississippi cases has more than two teeth...
Things have come to a pretty pass, indeed, when the Official Campus Daily must suffer these degradations. We used to think that we were mighty scribes wielding a potent force in our community. But we're not. We're just a common depository for things nobody else wants. We're just a waste-basket in the great scheme of things. --Daily Princetonian...
Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House has always seemed so securely grounded that most people were surprised last week to learn that it, too, had seriously felt Depression, that unless expenses were cut the quality of performances would have to suffer. Metropolitan artists behaved then in a manner worthy of the Company's proud traditions. Regardless of his contract, Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza offered to take 10% less salary. Singers followed suit. Metropolitan performances cost from $14,000 to $15,000 apiece. Another help in time of trouble may be the revenue from Saturday matinee broadcasts. Long adamant...
...least one element in the Far North the airplane is regarded with strong disfavor: the big dogteam operators, who have been put nearly out of business. The dogteams first began to suffer when the airplane companies gained a toehold on the passenger and express business; but they still had the mail. Finally this year the air services were permitted to bid for the mail and two companies, Alaskan Airways and Pacific International Airways,* won all the contracts...