Word: anguished
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...Hollister asked a hypothetical question. What, said he, would happen if publishers, who have already freed their pages from patent medicine advertising, should now refuse to accept any testimonial advertisement that was not certified as unpaid for and voluntary? Mr. Hollister predicted that such a procedure would cause anguish among many agency men charged with formulating campaign ideas, would also grieve Park Avenue females who would be deprived of "their most profitable racket...
...piece of nonsense" but by an actress whose virtue was a British household word -a thoroughly wicked woman, grist to the Arlenesque mill. This crafty villainess bewitches the carthorse into cad, and breaks Lily Christine's heart. Not the least of the heroine's anguish is over a respectable middle-class boyfriend whom she has unwittingly involved in the scandal. And just as the plot is thickening pleasantly, Lily Christine's creator pitches her under the wheels of a motor-lorry...
...seems that a certain Mr. Hubbard, '03 was "displeased", "shocked", and "grieved" because the 1928 Ivy Oration "irreverently" parodied the Gettysburg Address. It is very unfortunate that Mr. Hubbard's mental derangement should have caused him so much anguish as to make him sizzle in repressed indignation for five months, to finally explode in your estimable columns...
...realities had begun shattering his nerves. Even Private Secretary Tumulty was denied access to the sick man. Minor crises arose. Spurred by certain Cabinet members, Mr. Lansing called informal conferences. In the distorted imagination of the invalid President this seemed usurpation of authority. The harried idealist, taut with mental anguish, was goaded by a final sense of frustration. He complained. Mr. Lansing resigned...
...this Montemezzi has said with music. He stumps the old King on-stage with troubled horns. He sways the lovers with his strings. He tells the anguish of Flora's soul with a single overblown clarinet. He keeps it all ineffably tender and tragic until Flora's death and then, as if his inspiration died with her, he lets it go watered away to a teary...