Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...often have we been told we are the effete democracies whose day is done, and who must now be replaced by various forms of virile dictatorship and totalitarian despotism? No doubt at the beginning we shall have to suffer, because of having too long wished to lead a peaceful life...
...West Coast crows, California and Washington, who went into their seasons last year with relatively green outfits, partially through necessity and partially through the hope of building up an Olympic crew. Now the climax of the coming season is nonexistent, and these two top notch crews are apt to suffer from anticlimax all through the year...
...physical horror of an All Quiet on the Western Front. But it lacks the butt end of the rifle, the stench and anarchy and virile thrust of war; and it snobbishly refuses to make death, fear and pain the universal levelers they are. Its public-school products writhe and suffer behind locked lips; its Cockneys are pure comic effect. But if the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing field of Eton, the World...
...London's publishers moved to countryside offices. All laid in big paper stocks in anticipation of such a paper famine as occurred in World War I, when even wrapping paper became almost worth its weight in gold. If paper prices rise, Penguin and other cheap books will suffer first...
...give in, you alone will suffer...