Word: distress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grinning, pumpkin-plump Clara, 46, is not the cinema ideal of a hula queen. One night at the Royal Hawaiian, to the distress of the management, she sang and danced a brazen number called When Hilo Hattie Does the Hilo Hop. Composer Don McDiarmid was aghast ("I had in mind a slender, beautiful Hawaiian maiden-and look at you"). But the cash customers wanted more. The song became her trademark, and Hilo Hattie soon became Clara's professional name...
...With thousands of New Yorkers heatless, Mayor William O'Dwyer ordered oilmen to put deliveries on a priority basis, giving first call to homes, apartment buildings and hotels. The Navy sent 40 of its tankers into civilian service and even dipped into its own oil reserves to relieve distress in some areas. The Commerce Department cut oil and gasoline exports...
George Bernard Shaw, bright young man of Britain's grand old men, made instructive reply to a Bible student who had written him in some distress because Shaw had sold his late wife's Bible. He had plenty of other Bibles left, said Shaw soothingly, and besides, the Bible was "not a book but a literature; and like all literature it contains not only wise doctrine and inspired poetry, drama and edifying fiction, but is mischievous and su- Sir Thomas himself was conducting an orchestra at 10. perstitious. . . . Until the Kingdom of Heaven is within you, you will...
Before the Bretton Woods economic conference established the World Monetary Fund, the French could rate their currency to flit their own needs, and the result in a period of economic distress was shown in the frequent currency wars after World War I, making a mockery of stability...
This time Hope & Crosby are stowaways on a Brazil-bound steamer. Dorothy Lamour is a wealthy maiden in distress, amply surrounded by Gale Sondergaard and associated heavies. Miss Sondergaard, a hypnotist, has Dottie all set to marry a money-hunting louse the moment the boat reaches Rio. One gathers that the menaces are trying to snatch a fortune by this deal, but when the time comes for explanations, Crosby calmly tears up "The Papers" that would make everything clear and says with a leer, "The world must never know...