Word: tormenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whatever it is, the Youth Congress might have been especially designed to torment Martin Dies. It is a conglomeration of 63 national organizations; claims 4,600,000 members, has an organizational structure as complicated as an Insull holding company. Some affiliated organizations: Esperanto Association of North America, American League for Peace and Democracy, Association of Lithuanian Workers...
...Pitts.-Several of these statesmen courted gout by stuffing themselves with mutton chops and port. But hard-working Neville Chamberlain is no high liver. Said his sympathetic friends: his trouble was "poor man's gout," a hereditary chronic disease (his father, Joseph Chamberlain, had it) which may torment even teetotalers...
...immigrant Irish newspaperman, Herbert Croly was the first child adopted into New York City's Ethical Culture Society. Proud, shy, intellectual, Croly suffered agonies of embarrassment interviewing any stranger, virtual torment when impassioned liberals appeared. Despite a soft, almost whispered voice, he dominated liberal gatherings, New Republic luncheons, was deferred to not only by force of intellect but of character. No Robespierre, he had good friends among the Bourbons (one of them was a New York Stock Exchange ex-president). His ideas included a thorny explanation of U. S. history which, expounded in his best book, The Promise...
...enemy desires only to torment...
...20th-Century Russian history, but also stands out as a good novel in its own right. It tells its bloody epic through plausible human (and inhuman) characters. Its hero, Sergei Kuskov, is human in his contradictions. He coolly plans the assassination of Tsarist generals and police, but is tormented by puritanical scruples in his love affairs. A deadly foe of Tsarism, he nevertheless wins a medal for his zeal as a railroad construction boss, becomes a patriot in the War, gets to believe in democracy only after intellectual torment...