Word: woes
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...Woe betide high-rate mortgage holders, owners of real estate who want to conserve equities, municipalities which retard progress with high taxes and antiquated building codes! Celotex's Dahlberg is prepared to crush them with the cry: "Your rights cannot override the rights of the people!" If cities won't tear down buildings, replan streets, extend their limits, or if whole municipalities won't merge: "We must move to other fields and abandon such cities to their fate...
...Woe. Since its birth, Dec. 5, 1941, the Chicago Sun has had a pile of woe. But its greatest weakness has been a lack of one of the basic requirements of newspaper success: high morale on the staff...
Pete DeCenzie manages Des Moines' Casino Theater, where customers pay 20? before 1 p.m., 30? before 5 p.m. and thereafter 40? to see second-rate movies and bush-league burlesque ("Midnight Show Tonight . . . Red Hot Thrills . . . Adults Only"). Last week Manager DeCenzie was full of woe. Said he: "I had no idea. . . . I certainly was surprised. ... I was shocked to death...
...ghost of a woe nine years dead rose up last week and reeled drunkenly across the U.S. stage. His hour was gaudy, but brief. At week's end no innocent bystander would have begrudged Senators and Congressmen a couple of stiff quickies to quiet their jumpy nerves. For a few moments it had looked as if Prohibition might come back...
...Congress, the only body through which a democracy can fulfill its principle of "Government by the people," had taken a frightful beating at the hands of public opinion. Experts, analysts, prognosticators had said repeatedly that the people's wrath would show itself at the polls this fall-that woe would betide the Representative, the Senator, the Governor, the politician who had fallen short of his duty in the past twelve months. This theory now seemed to be so much nonsense...